NEW: @DeptofDefense says US military flights back in the air, headed to #Kabul #Afghanistan
Another 1,000 US troops are expected to be there by the end of the day, bringing total to 3,500
Another 1,000 US troops are expected to be there by the end of the day, bringing total to 3,500
"It's not a perfect process" per @PentagonPresSec on planning for evacuations at #Kabul airport
"You have to adjust in real time"
"You have to adjust in real time"
@PentagonPresSec says much of the planning & recent tabletop exercises for #Kabul airport did pay off
@DeptofDefense saw it as "a distinct possibility" #Taliban could overrrun the country & Kabul, he says, but that capitulation of so many #Afghan forces was surprising
@DeptofDefense saw it as "a distinct possibility" #Taliban could overrrun the country & Kabul, he says, but that capitulation of so many #Afghan forces was surprising
"We flowed this forces in as fast as we possibly could" into #Afghanistan per @PentagonPresSec
"It was aided by the prepositioning we did in the previous weeks"
"It was aided by the prepositioning we did in the previous weeks"
"We all understand the fear & the anxiety & the pain that you're feeling" @PentagonPresSec tells an #Afghan reporter
No one at the Pentagon is happy, he says
No one at the Pentagon is happy, he says
"I'm sorry for your pain. I truly, truly am" @PentagonPresSec says, wrapping up his response to an #Afghan reporter
US counterterrorism in #Afghanistan going forward - "We believe that our intelligence apparatus & the networks we have in the region are far more mature than they were in 2001" per @PentagonPresSec
re: countering #alQaida #ISIS-#Khorasan
re: countering #alQaida #ISIS-#Khorasan
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