U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, have been summoned to Congress to testify on American military forces’ withdrawal Fiasco from Afghanistan. The top Pentagon officials were grilled by members of Congress on Tuesday for the chaotic and deadly withdrawal from Afghanistan ending America’s longest war which began in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. Austin told the Senate Armed Services Committee members that the Afghan army’s sudden collapse caught the Pentagon off-guard as he acknowledged US miscalculations in the war. “The fact that the Afghan army we and our…
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