You would never have them in the quantities neccessary to turn the tide, and those that you did have would quickly be eliminated. Remember, the taliban used to have tanks and heavy artillery, thats gone now, because its impossible to utilise and conceal them against a western army...
Oh clueless one, the Taliban don’t work in the factories that make the tanks and airplanes, or the missiles and bombs, or drive the trucks that deliver same along with food and fuel, to those they would combat.
Big difference.
Haven’t you got the analogy backwards? The Taliban was the tyranical central government; the Northern Allience was the rural-based insurection. They both had left over Soviet heavy weapons. The Taliban could not finally defeat the NA; the NA could not drive out the Taliban, until the Americans sent them aid and air support.
Also, neither the Taliban nor the NA had anything like the technological economy and society that the US does, although the Afgans do have some spectaculary talented gunsmiths who can duplicate even modern small arms with 18th-19th Century hand tools.
VietVet