As President Biden plans to withdraw troops from Afghanistan, an intense unraveling of many intelligence and special operation forces may go down with it. Since 9/11, the US has created a number of extensive intelligence and covert action networks. A senior US official and two defense officials have publicly said that the plan is to remove hundreds of special operation forces that are not recognized by the US government but are openly supported and knowingly present. This also includes all members of the CIA within Afghanistan. So far, none of this is official information but many members of the military are believing that their time will come to an end in Afghanistan. If this were to happen, it would make the well-known special ops missions that the CIA is a part of much more difficult. Without military and ground support, the CIA will no longer be able to complete its special operation missions, and according to the CIA director, Bill Burns, ". . . the US government's ability to collect and act on threats will diminish. That's simply a fact." Another aspect to this though comes from national security advisor, Jake Sullivan, as he said that regardless of the number of troops on the ground, the CIA will still be given sufficient capacity to be well aware of the actions of our enemies.
What comes of this news is the potential of a weakening counter intelligence agency within the middle east. Although the CIA will still be able to monitor the doings of terrorist groups, some of their most profound missions will either no longer be able to happen or they will become increasinlgy difficult.
Kyle Remington
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