Daniel Hoffman: After Biden's Afghanistan debacle, he's got to tell us how he'll defend our national security

After Afghanistan's collapse we must hold the Biden administration accountable if it does not delineate its national security strategy. The U.S. deploys troops around the world including tens of thousands in Japan and South Korea combined.

I fought in U.S. and coalition forces for 20 years. I know firsthand that the battle tested Taliban has greatly improved its tactics and now enjoys the heightened prestige from having humbled another superpower.  I was channeling the late author and columnist Charles Krauthammer’s strategy of "forward defense," which calls for a robust overseas presence in the most dangerous locations where our national security is most at risk.  The world is more interconnected today than at any time in history. Our enemies can reach us in spite of the geographic separation, which once gave us a unique measure of security. For Krauthammer, the jihadist attacks on September 11, 2001 demonstrated that "pulling up the drawbridge and defending fortress America" was no longer an option.