“Brits” never were too bright.
If I were in charge, I’d have an online auction (outsource to a milsurp auction agency for a commission) with prices to take delivery on site, and invite shippers to bid for costs to ship containers wherever the buyers are.
Maybe just take bids for the whole lot of goods in country, and let the high-bid new owner decide how to deal with it.
This pretty much happens at the end of any conflict. The cost of returning used equipment exceeds the equipment value. So, it’s either turned over to local governments, or scrapped in place.
Thermite is inexpensive and in the right places would be all that’s needed.
It will all end up in the hands of the Taliban.
What, are the Germans hot on your heels or something?
AS others have pointed out this is SOP ecen for USA
BUT unlike prior conflicts where we left stuff behind there is a large force still fighting us who will be very happy to take what the brits and all others including us leave behind
and use that material to aid them in killing
I think all nations should pay the cost and either make sure the stuff is destroyed or get it out of there
leave nothing to help the Taliban and islamists
And you just know they’re going to overlook something really important by leaving so much behind.
Anyone have a copy of the Willy and Joe cartoon “You blokes sure leave a messy battlefield”?
“Brits” never were too bright.
Just wait until we leave. If Barry gets his way, it will resemble the fall of Saigon....I don’tthink he’d be too bent out of shape if alot of equipment went to Taliban hands.
This was mentioned in the movie LORD OF WAR about how it was easier for a country to leave it’s equipment behind and order new stuff back home than to take it home with them.
I remember reading how after WWII the Navy dumped tons of perfectly good equipment into the Pacific Ocean rather than take it back to the US. Most of it was brand new. I’m talking planes, tanks, jeeps, bulldozers, road graders, ect.
A local to me guy in the National Guard was brought up on Federal charges because he had the audacity to send items back home that were listed as “expendable” on their inventory instead of leave them behind. Once the items (flashlights) got back home, he gave them out to his buddies and even some to the local Sheriff’s office. I guess the Feds didn’t like that and had him charged with theft of Govt property.
I knew a guy who was involved in dynamiting “a mountain” of beer in the Philippines at the end of WWII. He said it was enough beer to put every brewer in the Philippines out of business for ten years.