Dan McNeill

Dan McNeill is a retired general in the United States Army, who commanded the NATO International Security Assistance Force in Afghanistan between February 2007 and June 2008, being replaced by GEN David McKiernan. His prior assignment was heading United States Army Forces Command. He is now the senior military analyst at Human Rights Watch.

Afghanistan

As a lieutenant general, he commanded Combined Joint Task Force 180 in Afghanistan in late 2001.

He also launched an investigation, in December 2002, into deaths resulting from American interrogation of detainees.

Against Administration policy, he made a public statement that “US forces acknowledge the internationally recognized boundaries of Afghanistan, but may pursue attackers who attempted to escape into Pakistan to evade capture or retaliation.”<ref name=Rashid-Descent>Ahmed Rashid (2008), Descent into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan and Central Asia, Viking, ISBN 9780670019700, p. 269<ref>

Education

Commissioned through the Reserve Officer Training Corps at North Carolina State University, he is a graduate of the U.S. Army War College.