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Subject Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Millie describes the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan as one in which the Taliban are winning
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Original Message Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley described the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan as one in which the Taliban have the “strategic momentum” as they control more than half of the country’s rural centers, while the government in Kabul is consolidating forces to protect provincial capitals where most of the population reside.

“There's a possibility of a complete Taliban takeover or a possibility of any number of other scenarios — breakdowns, warlordism, all kinds of other scenarios that are out there,” Milley said at a Pentagon briefing Thursday. “We're monitoring very closely. I don't think the end game is yet written.”

“You've got 34 provincial capitals in Afghanistan. None of them have been seized, as of today, by the Taliban, although the Taliban is putting pressure on the outskirts of probably about half of them, 17 of them, in fact, and what they're trying to do is isolate the major population centers. They're trying to do the same thing to Kabul,” Milley said.

“And roughly speaking, the order of magnitude — a significant amount of territory has been seized over the course of six, eight, 10 months sort of thing by the Taliban. So, momentum appears to be — strategic momentum appears to be sort of with the Taliban.”

Milley was asked to explain why the Taliban appeared to be winning despite the government’s overwhelming numerical advantage, with more than 300,000 U.S.-trained and equipped armed forces, compared to just 75,000 Taliban fighters lacking air support or heavy weapons.

“There's other factors that determine outcomes,” Milley replied. “The two most important combat multipliers actually is will and leadership. And this is going to be a test now of the will and leadership of the Afghan people, the Afghan Security Forces, and the government of Afghanistan.”

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