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americus 2.0 · 08-22-2021, 06:21 PM

(08-22-2021, 04:20 PM)jagibelieve Wrote: Never surrender.

What has been clearly taken out of context is the why the AFA fell so quickly. Also not widely published is the fact that the rise of the Taliban has been watched and predicted. One must ask themselves "who is supplying the Taliban and how are they funded"? Look just a bit to the east for the answer.

There are a lot who believe China is funding them and I can actually see that as an option. Some think Russia, but I'm not there yet.

The following is another part of the conversation that I thought to be pretty interesting....

That's not the reason. One was because of longterm betrayal in the ANA that I detailed out and wrote in another comment. The other was because of this:

(1) Why are some soldiers in the Afghan National Army not fighting back? I have been asked this question repeatedly over the past week. Here is some background. First: Casualties and death rates.

(2) Over the past several years Afghan soldiers have been fighting the Taliban and other insurgency groups daily, with the U.S. military providing mostly aerial support and training. And they have been killed and injured in large numbers.

(3) So, it is not like the U.S. military has been training one soldier for a decade, some of them have had only several months of training, before they were killed or injured and a new recruit would take their place.

(4) Second: Entry Level Skills – when one joins the military here at home, there are basic skills that are already acquired. That’s not the case in Afghanistan.

(5) Before any training could even begin, some soldiers needed to be taught how to read, write, drive a car or a truck, how to read instructions or follow a manual. So, the time it took to properly train would be much longer than expected.

(6) Third: Chronic Corruption – in our conversations with Afghan soldiers we have heard all kinds of stories. Commanders stealing the food to sell it on the market for profit, and leaving soldiers with inadequate supplies of rice and meat;

(7) Depriving them of SIM cards, so they cannot call their families; not giving them enough vacation to rest or recover, and of course no mental health counseling of any kind, even after repeated exposure to war.

(8) So, it is not that hard to understand why a 20-something young man might not want to sacrifice his life for leaders he does not respect, for a government he does not trust, and without any U.S. support to help.

(9) And one final point – Afghanistan does have Special Forces – they are called commandoes. These soldiers are highly trained, brave and dedicated. They fight with zeal.

(10) But what they lost with the U.S. withdrawal is the American Special Forces in their ear on many of the missions, watching them over drones, alerting them to danger and helping them out. So, even for them without this help, fighting became hard on a different level.