Lack of US planning, accountability led to collapse of Afghan forces, Taliban takeover, IG report – By Madeleine Hubbard (Just the News) / Feb 28, 2023
The Afghan military’s “eventual collapse … was predictable,” the watchdog wrote.
The United States government’s lack of planning and accountability contributed to the collapse of the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces and enabled the Taliban in taking over in summer 2021 to scavenger some of the $7 billion in U.S. equipment left behind, according to a new inspector general report.
The 148-page report published Tuesday by Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction John Sopko also states the Taliban used the left-behind equipment to hunt down former Afghan service members.
Sopkos in her report also said the Afghan military’s “eventual collapse … was predictable.”
