The War in Afghanistan
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Tiamat
I've seen the future...
That schmuck on the screen has the same clueless-looking “deer in the headlights” look Biden has. Coincidence…?
DarthOne
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I doubt it, lol.
He really wants to lose next year doesn't he?
Georgia would be better off if he did.
As long as it is not to Abrams. If it is for Joens then hell yeah
Humvees will keep running just fine with those knockoff parts from Red China. Why else do you think the Talibs are cozying up to the ChiComs?
Some if not all will be sold to China for disassembly and inspection. Same with the other fancy things they steal from the ANA.
Or Russia.
History Learner
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You can take it a step further-the Taliban have pledged to end the Opium trade from Afghanistan, which supplies about 60-80% of global production currently depending on the source you use. Prior to 9/11, they actually had done this, so I have confidence in their abilities and willingness in this matter. As a result:
This shitpost is dedicated to the brave Mujahidin of Afghanistan
They've done more to end the Opioid Crisis with this one step than the U.S. Government ever has.
History Learner
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The 10,000 Taliban around Kabul right now with the ability to completely shut down the evacuation and take 7,000+ Americans as PoWs says hi. Seriously, at this point everyone in the IC needs to shut up with these insane suggestions.
And? Any SI would have been taken put, and if they are ANA, they are basically hand me downs of the hand me downs.
Also Humvees are....known to be pain in the ass for us Active Duty
You have no idea how shit works do you?
Also, those American troops are more effective then the Taliban...
When you have experience and knowledge from first hand. Then maybe you will have a point
History Learner
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Just like your "experience and knowledge" led you in the IC to guess Kabul had 30 days left three days before it fell lol? Or how back in June you said GIRoA had six months to two years, when in reality it had about six weeks? Yeah, given how categorically wrong to the extent of parody your profession has been in this campaign season-nevermind the war as a whole-I'll gladly avoid taking any of your experience or knowledge.
With those who are actually paying attention, no matter how good those U.S. troops are, said U.S. troops are surrounded on a single airport surrounded by Taliban who are-according to many reports-actively helping provide security on the civilian side of said airport to boot. Once the Taliban shut down the airport those 7,000 U.S. soldiers have to surrender when they run out of food, water, and ammunition. We also know the Taliban have their Red Units on station in numbers, and those guys are equal to the U.S. in quality.
Just begging for a mob of enraged locals to drive them out of their state.
Chaos Marine
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My sides didn't survive the laughter from listening to this.
History Learner
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If we were solely taking women and children, I would be okay with refugees in a general sense. TERPs too, but the Journalists, "Human Rights Activists" and remnants of the GIRoA can get fucked.
History Learner
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Okay, to make a quick point here and use this post as illustrative, I'm seeing the ANSDF get a lot of hate and it deserves it in a sense; it was hopelessly corrupt as an institution. Still, however, the rank and fill were hard fighters, especially the Commandos; reports out now suggest what's left of them are going to ground to carry on fighting as best they can because there is no love lost between them and the Taliban. As for the regular ANA and ANP, it's worth noting the U.S. combat pullout was 2014; they've been effectively fighting the Taliban on their own since 2014 and by 2015 the attrition was already being reported as unsustainable.
As for this year, the Post-Moratoriums are already revealing lots of useful information for analysis of what happened. Case in point, most of the troops were unpaid for months and not being supplied. A lot of the rural areas and small towns the Taliban overran in May were being manned by troops who weren't even being regularly supplied with food. In these types of conditions, no troops anywhere could reasonably be expected to offer meaningful resistance.
PsihoKekec
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Troops there don't have much more ammo than their combat loads and considering that the airport is surrounded by urban area, Talibans would only need machine guns to prevent resupply. So while troops and their air support would be able to exact a hefty toll there is a chance that they would be overrun before US forces could establish a bridgehead at Bagram and push through to them.
The Taliban leadership is unwilling to pay the price though, they won the war and see no point in throwing it all away for a battle of spite, they probably consider the situation at the airport hilarious.