KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — Taliban fighters entered Kabul on Sunday and sought the unconditional surrender of the central government, officials said, as Afghans and foreigners alike raced for the exit, signaling the end of a 20-year Western experiment aimed at remaking Afghanistan.
Today's the day. :amerikkka-clap: MISSION ACCOMPLISHED :ameri
Maybe it professionalised in recent years, but I heard nothing positive about the ANA when deployments were higher and there were more first-hand accounts. Individual soldiers might be recklessly brave but most were minutemen conscripts using it as a job corps. They'd smoke heroin and hash on post and were considered less professional than the Iraqi forces we were outfitting. Afghanistan doesn't really have a national ethnic identity so it's a paycheque for frustrated young men facing an enemy that could shoot them or give them an incel utopia. When even the president is too much of a coward to Allende himself for any kind of national project, even without being infiltrated there's nothing for them to fight for.
Maybe it professionalised in recent years, but I heard nothing positive about the ANA when deployments were higher and there were more first-hand accounts. Individual soldiers might be recklessly brave but most were minutemen conscripts using it as a job corps. They'd smoke heroin and hash on post and were considered less professional than the Iraqi forces we were outfitting. Afghanistan doesn't really have a national ethnic identity so it's a paycheque for frustrated young men facing an enemy that could shoot them or give them an incel utopia. When even the president is too much of a coward to Allende himself for any kind of national project, even without being infiltrated there's nothing for them to fight for.