Afghanistan Withdrawal. Unlike the other hearings this one is almost entirely comprised of combat veterans from Iraq&Afghanistan, Kosovo&Syria, both on the panel and on the committee. Many are Special Operations&Quick Reaction Forces soldiers: Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, SF, SEALs, SOCOM, Rangers, helicopter&fighter pilots, one, now a practicing Medical Doctor MD, queried command environment. A soldier wrote a book about the harrowing withdrawal, the unsung heroes&last minute battles and the bad decisions that abandoned soldiers, civilians, allies and service members in-country marked for death. An abrupt retreat ending 20 years of nation-building. Book titled: Zero Sum Victory, the author Kolenda - he also testifies here. Covered: Kunar Province, Nuristan, Kabul, Bagram, Jalalabad is in there, Mazar-e-Sharif and everything in between. If you served in Afghanistan you will recall it all went pretty much the same wild way, with the implementing of numerous mitigation ideas that whipped around to result in betrayals. Lots of fiction and non-fiction material. Part 1 of 4.