It has been disclosed that the Trump transition team has drafted a list of some senior current and former US military officers who have been directly involved in the withdrawal from Afghanistan and have been exploring if they could be martialed for their involvement. The plans were discussed by a U.S. official and a person familiar with the plan.
The individual stated that the transition team were serious about the plans to establish an organ that would be responsible for the process. Though efforts to speak with the transition committee were not successful the immediate inquiry was noted and responded to by the team.
It was disclosed that Matt Flynn, a former deputy assistant secretary of defence for counternarcotics and global threats, has taken the forefront and was helping to lead the process the source disclosed. It was also noted that it has been planned that the group will review how the U.S. first got into the war in Afghanistan and how the U.S. ultimately withdrew
In the past President -President-elect Donald Trumo had spoken against the withdrawal, he noted that it was a humiliation and the most embarrassing thing that has happened since the country was created.
It is not clear, though, what would lawfully explain disloyalty charges since the military officers were following the orders of President Joe Biden to withdraw all U.S. forces from Afghanistan.
One of the reviews that was conducted independently in 2022 by the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction blames in its report blamed the Trump and Biden administration for the chaotic U.S. withdrawal in 2021.
Trump first gained an agreement with the Taliban in 2020 to withdraw all U.S. forces from Afghanistan, approximately 13,000 troops, and release 5,000 Taliban fighters from prison. The Biden administration then concluded the retreat and badly overrated the ability of Afghan government forces to fight the Taliban on their own.
Trump’s pick for secretary of defence, Fox News personality Pete Hegseth, has condemned the departure, saying the U.S. lost the war and wasted billions of dollars.
In his published book titled The War on Warriors, he noted that the next president of the United States needs to radically overhaul Pentagon senior leadership to make them ready to defend the nation and defeat the enemies. He further explained that lots of people need to be fired. The debacle in Afghanistan, of course, is the most glaring example.
Hegseth calls the departure a humiliating pullout and expresses that leaders at the Pentagon were not held responsible for the deadly attack at Abbey Gate, which killed 13 U.S. service members and roughly 170 Afghan civilians.
He went on to state that if they are held accountable for a subsequent U.S. airstrike in Kabul that officials thought would kill the Islamic State group leader behind the suicide attack but instead killed 10 innocent Afghans, including seven children, he wrote.
He also explained that the individuals are generals who have used the resources wrongly, He noted the individuals have failed and disgraced the troops and the entire nation. According to him, their act had led to the death of people which was largely unnecessary. He complained that with the acts they still keep their jobs which is wrong. Hegseth explained that worse, they continue to actively erode our military and its values by capitulating to civilians with radical agendas. They are an embarrassment, with stars still on their shoulders.
It was explained that the transition team is looking at the prospect of recalling several commanders to active duty for possible charges, the U.S. official said. It’s not clear the Trump government would seek disloyalty charges, and instead could focus on lesser charges that highlight the officer’s involvement. One individual who is conversant with the activities noted that they have decided to use the persons as examples.
In a conversation with NBC News before the election that produced Trump as the President it was disclosed by Howard Lutnick, who is one of the two advisers leading the transition, noted that Trump learned after his first administration that he had hired Democratic generals, and he would not make that mistake again.
Former officials who worked in Trump’s first government have said they advised Trump against approaches they thought would fatigue U.S. national security, such as removing U.S. troops from Syria. They advised against actions that they thought might disregard the Constitution or anger pressures domestically, such as deploying active-duty U.S. troops to suppress demonstrations after the 2020 police killing of George Floyd.
