The absurdity of warfare, monetized

Generally you don’t fire a javelin at a single guy. Ignorance is bliss.

Yea, we have Geneva convention rules against things such as this...

Bluessol, military strategist!

Lol, I’d have done a better job than Biden and his woke joke administration. It doesn’t take a genius to know you don’t pull your troops out before you get your Civis out. As a matter of fact it is so dumb that it might have been done on purpose because anyone with a working brain cell or two could predict this. Shrieking slogans is a lot different than the hard realities. You Utopians are blind and always get it wrong just like Biden.

What was your MOS and rank?

😂

You could be a PFC with an 11C MOS and know more about indirect fire than many generals.

I take it you haven't served.

I don’t think it’s necessary to have served, personally, in order to read widely through history and current events and military strategy. I do think it’s helpful to have friends and family who have.

From all this I gather:

—The problem wasn’t with our soldiers. They were highly trained and served bravely.

—The problem wasn’t with our equipment. It’s the most advanced in the world.

—The problem was with our strategy. Consistently underestimating the Taliban and overestimating the Afghan government. Looking the other way at abuses and corruption that fueled resentment because it was “our guys.” Expanding what should have been a limited counterterrorism operation into a nation-building exercise and even at one point a War on Drugs.

Just one civilian’s opinion.

That opinion is essentially correct.

The problem being that anyone with half a brain knew the results of the pull out before it happened.

Giving Biden any credit at all for "bringing home the troops" is ludicrous.

There had not been a soldier killed for 18 months. We were basically acting in an administrative administrative and advisory capacity.

Had we projected our strength and gradually pulled out it most likely would have much different.

Just the opinion of one that worked in Planning and Intelligence at the Division level.

As for bonifides, I spent November 4, 5 + 6, 1979 locked in a vault at 82nd Airborne Division HQ, planning to take and secure Terrhan International Airport and free our Embasy personnel.

Then Jimmy Peanuts, (once he worst American President) said he was going to use diplomatic means to free our people. (They were held hostage until Ronaldo Maximus, a no nonsense man)

He tried to extract them using Delta and when that failed, he told the mullahs that we still had soldiers in country attempting to exfiltrate. A friend of mine that was one, resigned when he got home, because of that.

Like most Americans, I haven’t served, personally. I’m a civilian.

Also like most Americans, I have friends and family who have.

Most weren’t eager to go back for a third or fourth tour of duty in a war with dimming chances of success. And it would be borderline criminal to ask them to.

Biden listened to those veterans and really put their interests front and center. As do I.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2021/07/06/us/politics/biden-afghanistan-withdrawal-veterans.amp.html

You heard it here folks, military technology is too expensive.

Time to go back to WWII era technology guys, it’ll be more fair because the weapons don’t cost as much as the soldier’s salaries!

We don’t need to spend $80,000 every time we need to turn a pile of rubble into a different pile of rubble, which is all the good our wars have done over the past 20 years.

The Taliban beat us with WWII-era technology, and now they’ve captured all the fancy tech we left behind, too.

The amount of money spent in Afghanistan will boggle your mind. It wasn’t for lack of money we lost the war, believe me.

Fight smarter, not harder.

“Gender studies”