Posted on 09/04/2021 6:11:03 PM PDT by McGruff
"The Army itself – the army and the police forces were a mirror image in many ways – and we created and developed forces that looked like Western forces," Milley explained. "I think one of the big lessons learned here is maybe those forces were not designed appropriately for the type of mission."
The general, who spoke to Fox News at the Ramstein Air Base in Germany, said the fall of the Afghan government occurred much sooner than officials had expected, despite thorough planning in the withdrawal of U.S. forces.
"The collapse of the Afghan army happened at a much faster rate and [was] very unexpected by pretty much everybody," he said. "And then with that is the collapse of the Afghan government."
"Afghanistan has always been a very difficult issue," he later added
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Well it didn’t help things much when the US cancelled the aircraft maintenance with the third party contractor and withdrew all intelligence as they pulled out. Effectively taking away the air support and eyes on enemy activity.
When you do plans in the military, and I have been in on many of them, you plan for all contingencies. The early failure of the Afghan army should have been one of the items considered, along with other low probability but existential contingencies - sandstorms, airfield attacks (did Milley have a plan if a mortar attack shut down the single runway at Kabul airport?)
Do you think these incompetent woke four stars have a plan if China or North Korea launched an EMP nuclear attack tomorrow knowing a senile demented Biden would not have a clue on how to respond?
We are in serious trouble. Believe it or not, but over the next three years Afghanistan will turn out to be the least of our problems.
Even as a demagogue, he's incompetent.
Ding, ding, ding - we have a thread winnah!
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