Afghanistan War Commission hears from vets as it tackles troop surge

REPLAY: Afghanistan War Commission Holds Public Hearing

Congress’s Afghanistan War Commission holds a public hearing at 8:30 a.m. ET on June 23. Expert witnesses who served in senior military, intelligence, diplomatic, and policy roles during the administration of former President Barack Obama, as well as Afghan officials who served during the administration of former Afghan President Hamid Karzai, will testify in two panels during the third hearing. The first panel, “Surge Debates and Surge Decision…

Afghanistan War Commission Hearing

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Afghanistan War Commission hears from vets as it tackles troop surge

At the peak of the war in Afghanistan, following President Barack Obama’s troop surge in late 2009, about 110,000 service members were deployed to the country at a given time. At least some of those troops were gleaning insights from their vantage point on the ground that would take senior leaders back stateside years more to uncover.That’s a core contention of the Afghanistan War Commission, a congressionally created bipartisan entity tasked wi…