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Caspian report has a decent overview here :
Afghanistan is screwed , this is a sad state of affairs.
Afghanistan is screwed , this is a sad state of affairs.
>Survive the initial impact from the ManPAD.
>Survive the catastrophic decompression and sudden drop in altitude.
>Survive what remains of the aircraft making it to terra firma.
>Survive the crash landing and stagger out of the burning wreckage, in shock but amazed and delighted that you're alive.
>Get beheaded by some angry bearded nutjob.
Until the US are out of the picture there will never be peace in the country. They have fumbled so many attempts of peace due to their own motives.Oh look the economy is down the swannie again. Time for another war I guess.
Until the US are out of the picture there will never be peace in the country. They have fumbled so many attempts of peace due to their own motives.
Well that was the Russians doing...Yea it was so peaceful before 2001 xD
Wont even be a civil war at this rate just collapse
Well that was the Russians doing...
I didn't say or even allude to that.I'm sure the people after that loved the beatings and killings and no education etc etc etc are overjoyed right now that it is going back to the ' Peacefull Taliban era '
I bet the Taliban get a lot from Pakistan, those metal workers can make replicas of most guns really cheap, check out all the replicas on show, some serious hardware. They even make their own customised non-replica fully automatics for $180.So, the main result of our 20 years in Afghanistan is that the Taliban who were previously armed with Soviet-era AKMs, AK74s, Dragunovs, PKMs, and DShKs, are now armed with M4s, M16s, M249s, HK417s, and M2s.
Great result.
Think this opens up a few questions regarding our limited role of making decisions. Pretty much how weak NATO / UK / EU is without the heavy lifting from the US.
Ultimately we didn't want to pull out this way, but we haven't the capability without massive EU or US support.
At least the US have been open in the past about this regarding NATO, basically the US run the show. Maybe we focus too much nowadays on interoperability to the point we end up paralysed in any decisive decision making
I bet the Taliban get a lot from Pakistan, those metal workers can make replicas of most guns really cheap, check out all the replicas on show, some serious hardware.
We're a tiny weak island though
Maybe I Missed this post in the discussion but how does the Taliban have the man power to take over an entire country in a few weeks?
Surely you need 10,000s of troops maybe 100,000s. Where have they been hiding? Something dodgy is going on here.