If we still had Bagram, we could use it to handle tactical fighters and troop transports, enough to keep the Taliban at bay until we evacuated Kabul. Taking off, reloading and landing at Bagram, instead of hours and hours away.
Without Bagram AFB, we are reduced to flying tactical missions from very long range. This gives the Taliban an immense OODA loop advantage. The Taliban now has local air assets (ex Russian Hips, ex U.S. Blackhawks), artillery up to 155mm howitzers, etc. This means they can move troops and artillery around much faster than we can respond with air missions from approx. 1,000 miles away.
Now, the Taliban can shut down Kabul Intl’ anytime they choose, using local forces under their control. We are 100% at their mercy. A total debacle. Every general involved should be busted to private and then fired without a pension.
Or shot.
This has to be willful sabotage to enable a Taliban takeover to pave the way for a Pakisatan/China hegemony in Afghanistan
Even the rawest recruit could predict the disastrous consequences of this act of military malpractice and betrayal.
The only possible explanation for this that the Biden Admin wanted exactly the outcome we are experiencing and wanted America to be humiliated and our military and diplomatic credibility and good will to ruined world wide.
The only miscalculation the Biden dirt bags made in this disgrace was the calculation they cram this cluster f**k down the throats of the American people without any blow back.
They over reached and miscalculated on that one and now they are trying to do damage control to save their sorry asses The entire Joint Chiefs of Staff should be sacked starting with Milley and everyone in the decision making loop should be court martial ed and either spend the rest of their lives in Leavenworth or face a firing squad.
My preferred choice would be to give each of several hundred of the soldiers who suffered under these Obama Generals and their destructive and demoralizing ROEs 5 minutes free time with each of these scum bags who shaved points and threw the game to the Taliban in Afghanistan.
There simply is no other explanation. Under the circumstances the entire Joint Chiefs should have resigned in protest weeks ago if they were not complicit.
Instead, Milley testified in front of Congress about trying to understand "white rage" . Anyone, white or black or whatever shade should be filled with rage at the actions of the feckless and profoundly destructive leadership we are seeing come out of Washington
Of course, this staggering military incompetence, bred of 20 years of lies, mostly in service of career advancement, should be punished.
But don’t think it’s only the military. Apartment buildings and bridges are collapsing for want of honest inspections. Tunnels leak. Academic tests are fraudulent.
And in my own field - there’s the CDC.
We have big big problems across the board.
It will interesting to follow the chain of orders leading to the middle-of-the-night evacuation of Bagram AB.
That was deliberate military sabotage.