{"id":26903,"date":"2026-11-10T03:11:27","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T03:11:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/?p=26903"},"modified":"2026-11-10T03:11:28","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T03:11:28","slug":"u-s-withdrawal-from-afghanistan-was-a-major-military-and-political-failure-hegseth-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/2026\/11\/10\/u-s-withdrawal-from-afghanistan-was-a-major-military-and-political-failure-hegseth-says\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan was a major military and political failure, Hegseth says"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>KABUL: U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has criticized American military academies, saying the U.S. military\u2019s failures, particularly the manner of its withdrawal from Afghanistan, have not been properly examined.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hegseth said some instructors at U.S. military academies avoid investigating major military failures because of political sensitivities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He described the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan as a major American failure, stressing that the episode severely damaged the country\u2019s international credibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Referring to the attack at Kabul airport, Hegseth said 13 American service members were killed in the incident, which he described as the result of serious operational, strategic and political failures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Hegseth urged military academies to conduct a serious and comprehensive examination of the reasons behind America\u2019s military failure in Afghanistan and determine why U.S. military officials failed to anticipate the collapse of the former Afghan government and why military plans unraveled within days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL: U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has criticized American military academies, saying the U.S. military\u2019s failures, particularly the manner of its withdrawal from Afghanistan, have not been properly examined. Hegseth said some instructors at U.S. military academies avoid investigating major military failures because of political sensitivities. He described the chaotic U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":26904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[85],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26903"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26905,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26903\/revisions\/26905"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omidradio.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}