Commentary The Digital Dunkirk, which was organized at first by U.S. military veterans, has been helping people make it to the Kabul airport by helping them maneuver around fixed and mobile Taliban guards and sentries. They do this with satellite imagery and keep constant watch on an evolving situation. Even with this help, making it through the final gauntlet is challenging, in many cases not possible. One wonders why the Pentagon did not provide this kind of intelligence to American, allied, and Afghan friends whose lives are in great danger. The lack of Defense Department initiative is only understandable in the context of egregiously poor planning. It is not that our troops on the ground are doing badly—they are heroes—but it is clear there is much more we could have done, such as going out and collecting those who need to evacuate and convoying them to the Kabul airport. DOD could …
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