Allies are fully committed to Afghanistan and funding and training the ANSF for years to come.

[A-Team]

Allies are fully committed to Afghanistan and funding and training the ANSF for years to come. Talis and their backers must understand that ANSF will stand and defend this country and the financial and training commitments by the US and allies will assist the ANSF in this sacred mission.


Talis have no option but to negotiate, either live in peace in Afghanistan or die like traitors.


Ash Carter: 'Very Pleased' NATO Allies Agree to 'Continue Mission in Afghanistan'

 

[RazorMC]

Allies are fully committed to Afghanistan and funding and training the ANSF for years to come. Talis and their backers must understand that ANSF will stand and defend this country and the financial and training commitments by the US and allies will assist the ANSF in this sacred mission.


Talis have no option but to negotiate, either live in peace in Afghanistan or die like traitors.


Ash Carter: 'Very Pleased' NATO Allies Agree to 'Continue Mission in Afghanistan'

Then what happened at Kunduz?

 

[Mirza Jatt]

All the best Afghanistan.

 

[A-Team]

Then what happened at Kunduz?

Read my earlier posts about the Kunduz San Tzu operation by Afghan security council. The fruits are that the International community will be engaged for years to come, ( more cash, more equipment, more training), militas were sidelined.

 

[RazorMC]

Read my earlier posts about the Kunduz San Tzu operation by Afghan security council. The fruits are that the International community will be engaged for years to come, ( more cash, more equipment, more training), militas were sidelined.

This matches perfectly with I posted waaay back.

Running away will be shown as some kind of strategy

 

[A-Team]

This matches perfectly with I posted waaay back.

Running away will be shown as some kind of strategy

Militas ran way and that is what the Afghan security council wanted, the ANSF retook the city in 7 hours just to prove a point.

The ANSF lost less than 30 soliders, while the Talis lost over 500, you do the math.

What was the strategy of the Pak Army when the Talis captured SWAT, held FATA for years and were bent on taking over Peshawar?

Lets not throw dirt at eachother, the ANSF is a young force and they have done a commendable job based on the situation they are in.

 

[RazorMC]

Militas ran way and that is what the Afghan security council wanted, the ANSF retook the city in 7 hours just to prove a point.

The ANSF lost less than 30 soliders, while the Talis lost over 500, you do the math.

What was the strategy of the Pak Army when the Talis captured SWAT, held FATA for years and were bent on taking over Peshawar?

Lets not throw dirt at eachother, the ANSF is a young force and they have done a commendable job based on the situation they are in.

Completely discounting the American bombing campaign, are we?

ANSF is young, but troops running away from insurgents is never a good sign.

 

[Maira La]

@A-Team just curious, what's your ethnicity?

 

[saurav]

Good Luck Afghanistan. A properly trained and equipped ANSF is must for regional peace.

 

[pakistani342]

Militas ran way and that is what the Afghan security council wanted, the ANSF retook the city in 7 hours just to prove a point.

The ANSF lost less than 30 soliders, while the Talis lost over 500, you do the math.

What was the strategy of the Pak Army when the Talis captured SWAT, held FATA for years and were bent on taking over Peshawar?

Lets not throw dirt at eachother, the ANSF is a young force and they have done a commendable job based on the situation they are in.

Just to clarify -- this was definitely not the strategy of Pak Army, not sure if they spun it that way. The general consensus is that the Pakistani establishment was caught napping -- the most credible conspiracy theory is that Kiyani let these districts fall in part of raise alarm bells in Western capitals. I personally find incompetence far more plausible than any brilliant thinking on the part of Kiyani.

Similarly the jury seems to have cast it's vote -- Kunduz was an unmitigated disaster for Afghanistan. 500 - 1000 Taliban wrested control from 5000 - 1000 ANSF forces stationed there (the Arbakai number is on top of that). The ANSF's morale was cited in repeated articles as low (imagine low in the face of 10:1 odds in ones favor). Further analysts think the retake of Kunduz would have been far messier or may not have happened without US air power. An AC-130 was called in to provide fire support in an urban area (?) -- kind of tells you which way the chips were.

Even the US military with all it's resources, its ivy league educated office corps (ok this is an exaggeration, but a US officer starts life far ahead of his/her third world counterpart) has blundered in the last 15 years. To expect third world armies to perform much better is sheer lunacy, at least in my humble book.

The Pakistanis have Gen Sharif (or is it Field Marshall now?) as their savior, the Afghans seem to have ANSF -- humans love waiting for Gadot.