The Day Afghanistan Died
National Review,
by
Brad Taylor
Original Article
Posted By: Dreadnought,
8/25/2021 8:06:12 PM
If you’ve read the plethora of post-mortem reports on Afghanistan, there are plenty of enemies to go around, from corruption, to incompetent leadership, to 20 years of rosy assessments from our own defense establishment. For me, there is a single day that Afghanistan died, and it was June 16, 2021.
I have spent my entire adult life studying insurgency and terrorism, sometimes with books and research, other times from the barrel of a gun, and because of it, I have learned Napoleon’s ultimate truth: In warfare, the moral is to the physical as three is to one. Insurgency as a form of warfare
Reply 1 - Posted by:
sanspeur 8/25/2021 8:26:27 PM (No. 892886)
heck NR ..This is a dumb click bait thing , there never was a country , rather tribal , primitive alliances , like that tv show but with death , guns and American $$$
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
velirotta 8/25/2021 8:27:22 PM (No. 892887)
This fine article pushes back the point that was the beginning of the end to June 16. The sheer incompetence of the Biden cabal, including the generals in charge, is shocking and disheartening. I pray to God that He will intervene and remove the metastasizing cancer at the head of our government, pronto, before all is lost.
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#2 - I believe this mess is the beginning to the answer of our prayers. My mom told me to look at the big picture... If Clinton was impeached, an incumbent Gore would have been harder to beat and he would have been in charge of 9/11 instead of Bush. I'm no Bushie, but I'd take him over Gore in an emergency. Obama getting two terms got us Trump, instead of Romney going for a second term. I have to believe He's up to something in the future to save us.
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Say what you want about NR but this is a good article that sums things up in a nutshell: 29,000 troops permanently deployed in South Korea make Afghanistan's standing force of 2,500 a bargain by comparison. Afghan Commandos (their equivalent of our Green Berets) doing a good job of the heavy lifting throughout the country and providing intel on the bad guys which we responded to with timely air strikes out of Bagram. Plus, we had a force-projection island next door to Russia, China, and Iran. And then we called a halt to the air strikes in mid-June, effectively pulling the plug on everything we had in place there.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
VietVet68 8/25/2021 8:59:53 PM (No. 892903)
Afghanistan didn't die, it was murdered by Joe Biden and the democrat party.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Sanchin 8/25/2021 10:23:26 PM (No. 892963)
NR aided the destruction of Afghanistan by its Never Trump drum beat in 2020.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
stablemoney 8/25/2021 11:10:56 PM (No. 892995)
There never was an Afghanistan. I read only 1-2% ever voted in any election. 40% of the Afghan army was ghost soldiers. I suspect the other 60% were Taliban receiving American money, training, and equipment. The Americans never controlled any territory beyond their bases. We have been lied to for 20 years.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
DVC 8/25/2021 11:29:59 PM (No. 893014)
Afghanistan is a creation by cartographers who didn't want a hole in their maps. It has NEVER been a country. NEVER. It is a random assortment of tribal warlords who control various pieces of this sheethole and murder those that they don't like.
"Nation building" there is like the old "teaching a pig to sing". You don't even try because, it will never work, and it annoys the hell out of the pig.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
DVC 8/26/2021 12:31:25 AM (No. 893053)
Sorry, not in the mood for NR garbage.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
MDConservative 8/26/2021 6:28:50 PM (No. 894044)
Back in 1836 there was an "army" of Texians who suffered miserable defeats including "No Quarter" capture and prisoner executions at Goliad and the Alamo. Civilian colonists ran eastward in The Great Scrape while the well-trained Mexican Army followed bent on the annihilation of the rebels...the Brazos River crossing was much like the Kabul airport, with people in panic and tossing aside goods to cross the swollen river. The Texian army was also in full retreat, its troops nearing mutiny.
This is fairly parallel to the Afghans in this article. And here is the difference. The Texians turned, fought and defeated the vastly superior enemy. The superior Afghan security forces melted away...despite all sorts of military advantages. Easy to blame the US for the failure...after 20 years of training, support and field experience. #s 7& 8 make valid points. We have been lured into a fool's errand, and like Vietnam before, our leaders lied to us.
Let's revisit Korea. Why are 27,000 American troops there 65 years after armistice, supposedly under UN auspices? Any UN force consisting of any mix of troops could serve as the same tripwire Americans do currently. And there is the conundrum of pacifistic Japan, which could act as an anchor in Asia as Germany does in Europe. Maybe it's time to revisit their status and our obligations to them.
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