MILLEY’S SITREP ON AFGHANISTAN: Joint Chiefs Chairman Gen. Mark Milley described the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan as one in which the Taliban have the “strategic momentum” as they control more than half of the country’s rural centers, while the government in Kabul is consolidating forces to protect provincial capitals where most of the population reside.

“There’s a possibility of a complete Taliban takeover or a possibility of any number of other scenarios — breakdowns, warlordism, all kinds of other scenarios that are out there,” Milley said at a Pentagon briefing Thursday. “We’re monitoring very closely. I don’t think the end game is yet written.”

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