US Afghanistan withdrawal a ‘logistical success but strategic failure’, Milley says

• General and other military leaders in heated cross-examination
• Milley defends loyalty to country and rejects suggestion to quit

The withdrawal from Afghanistan and the evacuation of Kabul was a logistical success but a strategic failure," the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff has told the Senate.

Gen Mark Milley gave the stark assessment at an extraordinary hearing of the Senate armed services committee to examine the US departure, which also became a postmortem on the 20-year war that preceded it.