And a former officer said Bolduc was desperate to be able to say he joined in the fighting before the Taliban surrendered in their area Don Bolduc's campaign for the Senate has made much of the way he led 'horse soldiers' in Afghanistan fighting terrorists in the immediate aftermath, for which he won a Purple Heart after a 2000lb bomb …
Before Afghan government collapsed on August 15, the US president pressed his Afghan counterpart to ‘change perception’. In the last call between US President Joe Biden and his Afghanistan counterpart before the Taliban seized control of the country, the leaders discussed military aid, political strategy and messaging tactics, but neither Biden nor Ashraf Ghani appeared aware of or prepared for …