Afghanistan - 20 years on

These lists being circulated aren't great. Most of the higher end stuff is either non serviceable or way out of the capability of the Taliban without external help.

The bigger worry is the huge amount of kit like new assault rifles and night vision along with armour that the Taliban haven't had access to before.
 
chrismscotland said:
These lists being circulated aren't great. Most of the higher end stuff is either non serviceable or way out of the capability of the Taliban without external help.

The bigger worry is the huge amount of kit like new assault rifles and night vision along with armour that the Taliban haven't had access to before.
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And yet we've had reports of them using this stuff for years.

According to a UN report published in 2019, for each typical squad of 10 to 16 Taliban insurgents, at least one man is equipped with a sniper rifle with a night-vision scope. Afghan media on March 6 reported Taliban insurgents had killed seven Afghan soldiers in a “midnight attack” in Balkh. And an incident on October 21, 2020 in which 48 Afghan soldiers were killed by Taliban snipers in a single night in northeastern Takhar province gave rise to a parliamentary inquiry.
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https://observers.france24.com/en/m...-propaganda-tool-thermal-imaging-night-vision
 
dowie said:
That's a pretty normal age for a corporal, maybe he meant lance corporal but it still doesn't make much sense. Also re: the other claim of the oldest guy in his unit being 24? That also makes no sense, his particular section sure if they had a 24-year old corporal commanding it but beyond that, nah... that wouldn't be the case a platoon or troop would have a Sgt older than 24 and a company/squadron would have an OC, 2ic, CSM or SSM, CQMS or SQMS etc.. all older than 24.
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I checked with them to see if I’d got it right, and they both said that they were talking about the clique of guys that they had served with, considering themselves as mates, to the exclusion of corporals and sergeants.
You were right about grandad being a lance-corporal, sorry for the confusion, my bad.
 
Seeing as Britain's 'Mission' in Afghanistan is over and the last flight out has left, I bet if some top ranking government official, a high ranking military officer, diplomat or politician''s son was amongst the thousands who couldn't get a flight, they'd send in the SAS to get them out.
 
chrcoluk said:
I doubt they left behind 4 C130s, they would have been flown out unless not airworthy.
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Thats what 65% of the Afghan air force was after the Western contractors, who helped maintain them, left. Those 30%-ish of serviceable aircraft/helicopters virtually all left for Turmenistan etc and whatever was left behind was unserviceable but maybe not un-flyable i.e. maybe 1 engine out of four was broke so we wouldn't fly it but technically its flyable etc.
 
Anyway, these people cannot be conquered by force, and they should be left alone because they deserve it. Great Alexander failed, Persians failed, Mongols walked over them and then left, the British failed, the Soviets too, now the American empire. A proper empire graveyard it is indeed lol.
 
Iraklis F.C. said:
Anyway, these people cannot be conquered by force, and they should be left alone because they deserve it. Great Alexander failed, Persians failed, Mongols walked over them and then left, the British failed, the Soviets too, now the American empire. A proper empire graveyard it is indeed lol.
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That's how England started out in the dark ages but there's no mention of the people here in the north west, especially Manchester. I say leave them to it and let Parliament get on with Britain's problems at home or closer to home. But they're more concerned about what's going on abroad and getting involved in USA's spats with China and Russia.
 
Iraklis F.C. said:
Anyway, these people cannot be conquered by force, and they should be left alone because they deserve it. Great Alexander failed, Persians failed, Mongols walked over them and then left, the British failed, the Soviets too, now the American empire. A proper empire graveyard it is indeed lol.
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Well thats not strictly true, British Empire won the second Anglo-Afghan war, and tbh it was the treaties after the 3rd war that set some of the current borders that exist today. Even in the recent war, the Allies had basically pushed the Taliban out to remote regions. They only regained ground after the Allies withdrew.

At some point though it becomes too expensive to maintain especially if it doesn't lead to permanent change.
 
A drone has destroyed a vehicle which was carrying "a substantial amount of explosive material" and heading to Kabul airport, US officials have confirmed.

A military official said the strike on Sunday caused "significant secondary explosions".
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Afghanistan: Drone destroys vehicle carrying explosives heading for Kabul airport | World News | Sky News

US confirms they carried out Kabul airstrike

The US military has confirmed earlier reports that they carried out an airstrike on a vehicle heading to Kabul airport.

US officials told the AP news agency the strike hit a vehicle carrying "multiple suicide bombers" on their way to the airfield.
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OspreyO said:
Well thats not strictly true, British Empire won the second Anglo-Afghan war, and tbh it was the treaties after the 3rd war that set some of the current borders that exist today. Even in the recent war, the Allies had basically pushed the Taliban out to remote regions. They only regained ground after the Allies withdrew.

At some point though it becomes too expensive to maintain especially if it doesn't lead to permanent change.
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The british declared victory and then pulled out of the country. And a victory that cost many lives only to abandon afghanistan, at least thats what i know. And its the same story again with the soviets and the current coalition in the country.
 
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