Foreign Policy

US commander in Afghanistan on Taliban strategy: ‘an offensive mindset’

By Diana Stancy Correll
Published October 31, 2018 4:35pm ET
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US commander in Afghanistan on Taliban strategy: ‘an offensive mindset’
In this September 2, 2018 photo, provided by the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army Gen. Scott Miller, commander of U.S. and NATO troops in Afghanistan, delivers remarks during the Resolute Support mission change of command ceremony in Kabul, Afghanistan. Afghan officials said Thursday, Oct. 18, 2018 that three top Kandahar province officials have been killed by their own guards in an attack at a security meeting that also wounded two U.S. troops. A Taliban spokesman who claimed responsibility for the attack tells The Associated Press that Miller, was the target. NATO officials say Miller escaped unharmed. | (U.S. Air Force/Tech. Sgt. Sharida Jackson, via AP)

A more aggressive approach toward combating the Taliban has been implemented to respond to massive casualties among the Afghan Security Forces, according to Gen. Scott Miller, commander of NATO-led Resolute Support Mission and U.S. Forces-Afghanistan.

“We are more in an offensive mindset and don’t wait for the Taliban to come and hit [us],” Miller said in an interview with NBC News in Kabul, Afghanistan. “So that was an adjustment that we made early on. We needed to because of the amount of casualties that were being absorbed.”

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