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A Guest on Morning Joe said the #was nowhere near that. Just more rampant corruption. Most were ghost soldiers. Higher ups in the army added names to collect their paychecks.
WHITT
(2,868 posts)the U.S. military was unaware or complicit. Neither very flattering.
As they were telling Biden they had trained a 300K man Afghan army with their own air force. They were supposed to setup a perimeter around Kabul so the U.S. military could perform a withdrawal and orderly evacuation.
BTW, so why is any of this Biden's fault, dear MSM?
Dream Girl
(5,111 posts)Why didnt he know? Why was hr so defiant? To quote a few cub reporters
littlemissmartypants
(22,418 posts)Video is twelve years ago but it still gives an eye opening look at the Afghanistan National Army.
Klaralven
(7,510 posts)And the jarhead drill instructor attitude is most likely insulting to the trainees.
littlemissmartypants
(22,418 posts)Where do you rate those facts on the readiness scale?
He is speaking through a translator which is acceptable protocol and I don't blame him for being mildly curt, considering the crew he has to work with.
Or maybe troops high on hash is the best we should expect...?
Klaralven
(7,510 posts)It's all giving commands and being negative. Likely won't work for their culture.
Someone forgot to train the trainers. And then the trainers forgot to train the Afghan officers and NCOs. Who then might just be able to figure out how to train the troops.
littlemissmartypants
(22,418 posts)Klaralven
(7,510 posts)Grand nephew got back from Afghanistan a year a go. His grand father, who spent 13 months in "peacetime" Korea on the DMZ couldn't convince him that joining was a bad idea. Nor my BIL who has a purple heart from Korea several years earlier.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Treefrog
(4,170 posts)Certainly high ranking military and government leaders knew.
Same deal was said of the ARVN.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Kaleva
(36,147 posts)joetheman
(1,450 posts)ought to be on the frozen assets list across the globe.
andym
(5,441 posts)With all the American training, there were not large numbers of troops fashioned in the style of professionalism seen in the US military.
A big issue was despair: after the Afghan government could not hold cities (such as Kandahar) against the Taliban, the entire endeavor must have looked like a lost cause to the Afghan soldiers. So they despaired and just dispersed.
For all the talk of Taliban revenge, Afghanistan has had a history of accepting adversaries back -- that is why they were able to create a unity government after the US invaded, but also why it was so weak, loyalty to the government was not necessarily guaranteed.