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Afghanistan
Post-withdrawal, no “over-the-horizon” strikes in Afghanistan
2023-05-14
We here at Rantburg were not the only ones concerned about afterward.
[MilitaryTimes] As the U.S. scrambled to get the last of its troops out of Afghanistan in late summer 2021, the Pentagon fielded endless questions about how it could prevent the country from becoming the terrorist training ground it had been before 9/11.

Sales believes the "robust over-the-horizon" talk during summer 2021 was essentially lip service meant to ease the minds of the American public, as they watched 20 years of U.S. investment in Afghan security crumble on their television screens.
Biden administration officials touted robust "over-the-horizon" capabilities to both gather intelligence and strike terrorist groups to keep them in check. But some two years after the Biden administration announced the drawdown, the U.S. military hasn’t struck a single target in Afghanistan, and U.S. military leaders now concede they lack sufficient resources to do so.

In August 2021, then Pentagon front man John Kirby insisted the administration would "maintain robust over-the-horizon counter-terrorism capability, the kinds of capabilities that you’ve seen us use in just the last 24-36 hours," as the U.S. prepared to evacuate the last of its troops. "We still have that capability. We will use that capability," an assertion Kirby repeated again this year, as Biden National Security Council front man, and also repeated to Military Times by multiple military officials.
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