The Trump administration will draw down U.S. forces in Afghanistan and Iraq to 2,500 troops in each country before President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration in January, acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller confirmed in a statement Tuesday, a move that will put the outgoing president at odds with Republicans in Congress and the incoming Biden team.
Miller—who has not taken questions from reporters in his eight-day tenure on the job—did not provide any rationale for the decision, identify which units would move out of the country and on what timetable, or clarify what the mission for the remaining 2,500 U.S. troops would be.
