Kash’s Corner: We Knew This Would Happen in Afghanistan, and We Had a Strategy to Prevent It

“It’s not like we deleted all that intelligence when we transitioned,” says Kash Patel, who previously served as chief of staff to then-acting Secretary of Defense Christopher Miller. “Our assessment was that if we surrendered in Afghanistan—that is, if we just up and left—the Taliban would take over almost immediately,” Patel ...