Careful and complete planning.
1. Withdraw the military LAST.
2. Get every American and Afghani civilian we promised to get out, out--mission objective #1.
3. Plan truthfully and fully with our ALLIES.
4. Advise the Afghan Army every step of the way.
5. Wait until the snow closes the high passes before withdrawing our forces.
1. Bomb the stuff out of the Taliban/ISIS whenever they put tone little pinky out of place...
Yup. Most of that or all was in Trump’s plan, witnessed by Pompeo who was at the sit-down meet with the Taliban lead general. See my post above.
Right - everything was done haphazardly and abruptly with ZERO transition phase. I don’t know if the Afghan army could have handled it in the end, but they had zero chance by just pulling the rug out from under them. We could have left air support in place for at least a short while. And again, Bagram was never going to be abandoned - it was a good strategic location for the US to have a military base. Biden just up and left it for foreign adversaries to use.