Air Taliban: Fighters seize $6million US Blackhawk helicopters alongside tons of American equipment

[superstar_88]

You know that they tried to do all that, huh?

Go google "Operation Anaconda". They tried to do it. The AQ guys got away. Google "Torah Bora" as well.

So I appreciate that you're way smarter than the generals, the colonels and even the guys who had to do the fighting and dying. But no.

Dart doesn't use google and proud of it.

 

[Charlemagne]

Shouldn't have gone there in the first place.

 

[nottyboi]

Well, they outlasted them. And the Russians. And the British in the 1800's. So credit, I guess.

Every military victory comes from outlasting your opponent.

 

[Charlemagne]

Trump sure wanted out, as opposed to the Warhawks that are mostly neocon establishment figures.

 

[mandrill]

Every military victory comes from outlasting your opponent.

Heinz Guderian and Erich v Manstein want to talk to you about the Blitzkrieg.

After that, Napoleon and Alexander the Great need a little chat.

 

[mandrill]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1427295338382118918

 

[mandrill]

 

[kstanb]

I am not worried about the airforce or sophisticated equipment; those need good maintenance to work, same goes for the humvees, these are notorious gas guzzlers, the Taliban won't have the money to keep driving them for long

in a couple months they will be back on foot

 

[mandrill]

I am not worried about the airforce or sophisticated equipment; those need good maintenance to work, same goes for the humvees, these are notorious gas guzzlers, the Taliban won't have the money to keep driving them for long

in a couple months they will be back on foot

You dismiss the humble donkey.

 

[Darts]

I am not worried about the airforce or sophisticated equipment; those need good maintenance to work, same goes for the humvees, these are notorious gas guzzlers, the Taliban won't have the money to keep driving them for long

That is why the Americans had so many contractors in Ghan to keep the equipment running, not to fight the Taliban.

 

[kstanb]

a bit more worrisome is the artillery, mortars and RPGs, plus the hundred of thousands of AKs and ARs, the body armor, night vision equipment...

that all said....they already won, so most will go to storage in waiting to the next chapter of their endless civil war

I doubt they will give their cool weapons to other terrorist organizations

 

[nottyboi]

Heinz Guderian and Erich v Manstein want to talk to you about the Blitzkrieg.

After that, Napoleon and Alexander the Great need a little chat.

Why, didn't the Nazis outlast the Poles? And then Russians outlasted the Nazis. Also the Russians outlasted Napoleon as well.

 

[nottyboi]

I am not worried about the airforce or sophisticated equipment; those need good maintenance to work, same goes for the humvees, these are notorious gas guzzlers, the Taliban won't have the money to keep driving them for long

in a couple months they will be back on foot

How about all the explosives, ammo, mortars, rocket launchers, mines, machine guns, anti-tank missiles etc.

 

[kstanb]

How about all the explosives, ammo, mortars, rocket launchers, mines, machine guns, anti-tank missiles etc.

post #51

 

[oil&gas]

George Bush's accomplished mission is finally brought to closure.

 

[Frankfooter]

GOP Removes Page Praising Donald Trump's 'Historic' Peace Deal With Taliban

The removal comes after Trump branded the withdrawal from Afghanistan "one of the greatest defeats in American history."

www.newsweek.com

 

[jcpro]

Trump sure wanted out, as opposed to the Warhawks that are mostly neocon establishment figures.

This is a strawman argument. Actually, Rand Paul made that speech 10 tears ago, too. Like Trump, he was crucified for it. The outrage over Afghanistan is NOT about ending the conflict. Pretty much everyone, by now, agrees that the American involvement should be ended. It's the way Biden and his circle of clueless wonders accomplished it.

 

[contact]

How about all the explosives, ammo, mortars, rocket launchers, mines, machine guns, anti-tank missiles etc.

they had all of that before the small arms as I said before will change nothing the m16 family of rifles require more cleaning and maintenance then the ak/akm series that will be a problem for many

 

[mandrill]

they had all of that before the small arms as I said before will change nothing the m16 family of rifles require more cleaning and maintenance then the ak/akm series that will be a problem for many

They may get newer AK's than the museum vintage AK's they got from the Soviets. IIRC, the Afghan Army used ex Soviet small arms and infantry support weapons, not modern US stuff.

Not much of an upgrade.

 

[mandrill]

This is a strawman argument. Actually, Rand Paul made that speech 10 tears ago, too. Like Trump, he was crucified for it. The outrage over Afghanistan is NOT about ending the conflict. Pretty much everyone, by now, agrees that the American involvement should be ended. It's the way Biden and his circle of clueless wonders accomplished it.

As recently as June, Trump made a speech telling his MAGA-sheep that he had to "force" Biden to pull out and urging him not to leave troops in Ghan until September. I posted it.

Pretty clear that the Trump admin would have pulled out even faster and more suddenly than the Dems.