solarz
Brigadier
How are SF supposed to help defend a city?
Seems to me the Kabul govt is getting desperate
China's strategy in Afghanistan.
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How are SF supposed to help defend a city?
Seems to me the Kabul govt is getting desperate
I am guessing just by nature of them being loyal to the afghan government and therefore willing to fight, and being well organized and well trained. those traits alone will put them leaps and bounds above most middle eastern counterpart. just look at lebanese hezbollah for example.
it does seem like kabul really does not want the taliban to take a city. I think kabul already accepted that the taliban will dominate the majority of the country, but if it is able to retain control of all the cities and its population, then it is something to bargain with. if the taliban were to even take one city, all others except kabul will feel vulnerable, and lose the will to fight. that explains why kabul is willing to deploy its best units, not only to fight the taliban but as a gesture to all the cities under seige.
Thanks for sharing it here too (He fought in an area similar to Afghanistan in terrain, is ethnically an Afghan, finished the Taliban on the Pakistani side)
So he is probably one of the most knowledgeable people in the world when it comes to these issues
The last 10 minutes as a Pakistani got me scared sh***ss for the future/survival of the country...
His conclusion is wrong, but his threat assessment of the US-India nexus to CPEC is correct. Pakistan can't influence US policy, nor is crying about Indian actions in the media going to work.
What is useful about this interview, is his warning that over the next 10 years, India and the US will try very hard to damage CPEC, especially via covert (CIA-RAW) operations, and there will be fallout from this on Pakistani soil. People will die, bombs will explode, officials will be bribed to try and sabotage projects etc. It's going to be messy, and there will be casualties, both Pakistani and Chinese. It will test the Pak-China relationship. Resolve will be needed by both Pakistan and China to get through this period.
The big MSM news story today (at least from the BBC) is that the Taliban are being assisted by hard line Jihadi groups such as Al-Qidea and even ETIM to bolster their attempts to seize the key southern cities and that if the Taliban win this new civil war, it will pose a danger to whole world
This is being attributed to an Afghan General leading the defense of these cities.
Obviously, he has good reason to try and send up as many alarm signals as he can. If true (or even partially true) however, this would fly in the face of the assurances given by the Taliban representatives that visited both Moscow and China recently.
Can the Taliban be trusted? are they playing a blatant double game or is this simply more black propaganda from the West?
This is being attributed to an Afghan General leading the defense of these cities.
Obviously, he has good reason to try and send up as many alarm signals as he can. If true (or even partially true) however, this would fly in the face of the assurances given by the Taliban representatives that visited both Moscow and China recently.
Can the Taliban be trusted? are they playing a blatant double game or is this simply more black propaganda from the West?
I have a better question: Since when have the Taliban needed Al-Qaida's "assistance" ?
I believe
They'll rely on all these groups until they reach Kabul and then phase em out
seems like afghan government just contributed more of their SOF to Lashkar Gah. They seem to have to resolve to stop the taliban from taking over the city. I imagine aside from the actual fighting, SOF is going in to coordinate US airstrikes? In either case it is a gamble because if it does not payoff it is likely that a lot of these guys will be lost, and kabul can't afford that.
solarz
Brigadier
Looks like they took a different provincial capital instead.