Everyone “Got It Wrong” On Taliban’s Lightning Takeover Of Afghanistan: British Army Chief
London: the planet "got it wrong" on how quickly the Taliban would take over Afghanistan, the top of British army said on Sunday, days after the united kingdom government acknowledged that intelligence suggested that "it was unlikely Kabul would fall this year" after Western troops withdrew from the war-torn country.
The US and other countries were caught off-guard by the Taliban's lightning conquest of Afghanistan last month and therefore the strikingly rapid fall of the Afghan military and government backed by the West once NATO troops left the country.
"It was the pace of it that surprised us and that i don't think we realised quite what the Taliban were up to," Britain's chief of the defence staff, General Nick Carter told the BBC Asked whether military intelligence was wrong, he said ...