Joe Biden Admin Killed Us
Posted on 08/30/2021 12:15:47 PM PDT by george76
Defence analysts have argued that the removal of air support for Afghan forces was a critical error that signficiantly increased the speed at which the Taliban were able to take over the country.
The claims were made in the latest episode of the popular defence podcast whiched discussed the fall of Afghanistan, the failures in the US and NATO responses and the implications for the future.
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So you just have this situation where the media environment was very unreliable, but there was this general idea among Taliban fighters and ANA forces that once the US is gone, it’s over. And the cessation of US air support earlier in the summer definitely, I think honestly, I spent some time looking back today before the podcast at the turning point events that we were absolutely sure, that if you could locate one event, one decision, that would change the outlook, the outcome of what’s happening today. The decision I had to look at was the decision to stop air support for the Afghan army. That just caused, if we had kept supporting the Afghan army, through to now, the situation would be a lot more different.”
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“It’s fair to say as well that without US air support the Afghan air support capabilities were much weaker. We saw very quickly after the Taliban started to sort of move across the country that Afghan air army assets started to capitulate or flee.”
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“It was additionally, the Afghan Air Force, I know Biden tried to claim that the Afghan Air force was built up and was strong, and ended up being useless in the fight. But they had 12 useable attack aircraft at any one time. The ground attack assets they had were for liaising with on the ground forces, but the issue was, ground forces weren’t adequately trained. They didn’t have tactical air controllers, they weren’t trained to tell aircraft how to hit targets.”
Maybe Billy Mitchell should have shown up and explained to them that Air Power is pretty important ...
You don’t say!
Yeah well, they are all hanging out now courtesy of Blinkin and Nod.
No kidding...😜
Ya think?
This must have required War College…
Thsts Just it, they WERE warned....Biden was anyway and chose not to take the experts advice.
Now we know what kind of damage a combination of hubris, yankee hard headedness and cognitive decline can do.
Damnit! Why did Trump do this?! /s
“Removing Afghan air support was ‘critical error’ say analysts”
Removing Afghan air support was just one of many critical errors says anyone with a brain
There, fixed it
Uh, same thing Biden pulled in early ‘75 when he helped end air cover for South Vietnam.
This US Military pull out of Afghanistan hurt America so badly that it could not have possibly been just a DC democrat debacle. The future of Muslim terrorism against the western world is not going to be as it was. There is no question that this Afghanistan surrender all had to be planned for months and orchestrated to go exactly the way it went. The USA is now danger central.
Well duh. This is all on Biden, Kamala, and the democraps.
I betcha these “defense analysts” flunked the urine test.
Common sense isn’t common anymore. Critical thinking? What’s that?
Ya think?! Basic military strategy 101. Control the air.
WC is more focused on diversity and gender strategy.
Error, my arse.
Analysts are either stupid or intentionally misleading.
It was NOT an “error”, it was intentional. It was ordered by the US government who was following orders from China.
What the hell do you think “Biden is corrupt” and “Biden is compromised” mean anyway?
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