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serious harm to hard-fought counterterrorism gains and
American safety. With these recent moves, Miller appears to be disregarding important lessons about terrorists' resilience and the value of partnerships when conducting counterterrorism, while embracing a politically expedient but strategically nonsensical notion of 'ending forever wars' to appease the president during his final weeks in office." They also pointed to the inconsistency in Miller's message where he claimed that the United States is "on the verge of defeating al-Qa'ida" and noted the need to avoid "our past strategic error of failing to see the fight through to the finish," while also making the audacious statement that "Now, it's time to come home."
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795:"complete horseshit", and he insists they "had their game together". After reassessing what happened on January 6, Miller acknowledged something they were unaware of beforehand: "It seems clear there was an organized conspiracy with assault elements". Aside from whether that unawareness affected the Pentagon's response, Miller says the conspiracy was organized and set in motion before Trump spoke on January 6, and thus should not be attributed solely to what Trump said on that date.
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November 2020, the political acting leadership of the Pentagon ordered drawdowns of U.S. Forces in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Somalia against the advice of U.S. military commanders. Some were critical of the decision with one group calling it "11th hour of President Donald Trump's administration, risk
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Capitol attack: "I didn't need to. I had all the authority I needed and I knew what had to happen," he said. Miller rejects the notion that the Pentagon dragged their feet protecting the Capitol, calling that notion
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January 14, 2021, interview, Miller praised Russia's military capabilities, given their larger problems (e.g. declining population and single source of revenue) saying, "professionally I'm like, wow, they're doing pretty well, and they're using a lot of irregular warfare concepts, information,
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President on January 6 because, "I had all the authority I needed and I knew what had to happen", and he said the delay was because he
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2516:""The President Threw Us Under the Bus": Embedding With Pentagon Leadership in Trump's Chaotic Last Week"
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