But the announcement didnвЂ™t seem to prompt the military to take action on moving gear out of the country, Davis said, adding that his past experience suggests that equipment should have started leaving Afghanistan three or four months after that initial agreement. President Donald Trump signed an agreement with the Taliban in February 2020, committing to be out of the country by May 1, 2021.

Part of that mess is the PentagonвЂ™s own fault, Davis said. вЂњYou have to just throw everything away that you donвЂ™t have time to get in aircraft,вЂќ said Daniel Davis, who helped oversee an earlier Afghanistan drawdown in 2011 as an Army officer. Multiple experts agreed that the five-month timeline to withdraw does not leave the Pentagon with enough time to carefully examine each piece of equipment and evaluate whether it should be destroyed, sent home, or given to the Afghans. President Joe Biden announced last month that all American troops will leave Afghanistan by Sept. Today's D Brief: Afghanistan withdrawal takes shape DoD clarifies Yemen role China warns US Indonesian sub declared lost And a bit more.

вЂItвЂ™s Time to End the Forever WarвЂ™: Biden Announces Withdrawal from Afghanistan вЂњAfter all that we have spent, after all that we have endured, after all the blood that has been shed there by Americans.now we destroy everything.to make think вЂWho are these Americans? They have no value for anything whatsoever,вЂ™вЂќ Manchin said at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing to consider the nominations of Michael McCord and Ronald Moultrie, who were tapped to be the comptroller and undersecretary for intelligence and security, respectively.Д«oth nominees demurred, saying they suspected it came down to the cost of transporting old equipment home, but didnвЂ™t know the details since they are still outside of the department. In addition, more than 100 C-17 cargo planes of material have already been taken out of the country.Д«ut destroying vehicles and other assets in Afghanistan вЂњdoesnвЂ™t make any sense,вЂќ said Manchin, D-W.V. Central Command said in a statement Tuesday. Troops have sent more than 1,800 pieces of equipment to the Defense Logistics Agency to be destroyed, U.S. Joe Manchin is worried about the militaryвЂ™s wasteful destruction of equipment in Afghanistan, but analysts say troops are on such a tight timeline to leave, that they donвЂ™t have any other options.