Tango01 | 03 Mar 2015 10:56 p.m. PST |
"Afghan security forces are suffering heavy casualties on the battlefield and large numbers of troops are resigning or deserting their units, a new report said Tuesday. The US military also has overestimated the size of the Afghan police and army by a significant margin, the special inspector general for Afghanistan reconstruction, John Sopko, said in a report to Congress. The Afghan army "continues to suffer serious combat losses," SIGAR wrote. Between October 2013 and September 2014, more than 1,300 Afghan army troops were killed in action and 6,200 were wounded…" Full article here link Amicalement Armand |
EJNashIII | 03 Mar 2015 11:05 p.m. PST |
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Cyrus the Great | 03 Mar 2015 11:27 p.m. PST |
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Jcfrog | 04 Mar 2015 4:44 a.m. PST |
An epidemic… All those sweet instructors, advisers, contractors generals, etc. who went there, would you tell us they knew nothing? ( then well, can their huge cost be re examined?)+ politicians… Another country, or geographical zone that actually cannot work as a European/ Us model with centralized state. And why should it? Like Somalia Yemen Libya Many others whose borders are meaningless and history was ignored. |
Legion 4 | 04 Mar 2015 8:45 a.m. PST |
Yep … some places are stuck in the past on many levels … They have more tribal affilations, etc. than to the current gov't in power. Which usually is corrupt, weak, etc., etc. … If they couldn't get modern weapons. They'd be just as happy to use sticks and stones to kill each other … |
Bangorstu | 04 Mar 2015 10:20 a.m. PST |
For all the problems Afghanistan has, its borders are not meaningless, having been fairly constant for centuries… Unlike Somalia, Yemen or Libya it's not an artificial state created by colonialism. I'd say the impressive thing is they're still fighting hard. |
Jcfrog | 04 Mar 2015 10:45 a.m. PST |
Well the Durand line… One can argue that the real border of the same kind of people is closer to the Indus at least in the North. |
Inkpaduta | 04 Mar 2015 11:31 a.m. PST |
Let's start of pool. Once the US is out of Afghanistan before the Taliban is back in control? I say less than 1 year. |
Legion 4 | 04 Mar 2015 11:59 a.m. PST |
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Tango01 | 04 Mar 2015 12:00 p.m. PST |
Six month! Amicalement Armand |
Mako11 | 04 Mar 2015 12:55 p.m. PST |
Just goes to confirm my suspicions that the Taliban will be the new, Afghan army, and probably sooner, rather than later than we think. |
15mm and 28mm Fanatik | 04 Mar 2015 1:29 p.m. PST |
The problem is that these national armies are perceived as American proxies (or at least stooges) and they lack "legitimacy." Recruitment into them probably pales by comparison to the Jihadi groups. |