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When pressed about this mission in Afghanistan, and the overall success of U.S. operations over 20 years, Milley said:"We went to Afghanistan ... to ensure that Afghanistan never again became a platform for terrorists to strike the United States. We believe that now after 20 years—two decades of consistent effort there—we've achieved a modicum of success.
And on the question of strengthening the armed forces, he gave a particularly unmilitary answer. To be a great power, he said, certainly requires a strong and capable military. But it also requires a strong and capable economy, and a strong country internally, he said."You have to have a very resilient country as a whole; you have to have a great education system; you've got to have great infrastructure. You have to look at it as a whole, of which the military is one piece of the whole.
"Part of the job I'm in right now as the chairman is to communicate with our adversaries in very close hold, classified back channels," Milley said,"but I do that, and so do a few other members of our government in order for our opponents to clearly and unambiguously know that if action A were to be then reaction B would happen as a result.
"If we're going to attack," Milley went on,"I'm going to call you ahead of time. It's not going to be a surprise."
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