Via air? From where? For your info, all of the airlift missions for the deployment are planned, tasked and command-and-controlled by the 618th Air and Space Operations Center's Theater Direct Delivery division at Scott Air Force Base, Ill. As Eighteenth Air Force's hub for global operations, the 618th AOC plans, schedules and directs a fleet of nearly 1,300 mobility aircraft in support of strategic airlift, air refueling, and aeromedical evacuation operations around the world.
The tanks and other warlike equipment are taken by ship for the majority of the trip around the world, and airlifted the last portion of their journey into land-locked Afghanistan by Air Force C-17s.
Now that means a huge American logistics node for the 618th AOC would have been set up either at Faisal Air base at Karachi or Pasni. There would be a number of C-17 squadrons required for airlift ops into Afghanistan, which would need to be based here.
Do these airbases have the wherewithal for handling the enormous requirements of such logistics nodes? And could this all have been kept secret? It would have taken months to transport the infrastructure required for establishing them.
I think this report is complete baloney.