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Originally posted by: nemesis
My dear Jillf; if you think the Afghan fighters are so damn fearsome ( what? ) you should go join up with them. I'm sure some nice un-fearsome ( right! ) U.S. soldier will be along to blow your silly ass away soon enough and show you the error of your thinking.
signed,
Really fearsome ex- U.S. Warrior
You haven't proven yourself fearsome, merely ignorant and arrogant. The two chief contributing sources of defeat.
From https://www.mcclatchydc.com/2012/10/09/170994/the-afghan-war-do-the-numbers.html
"military officials refuse to even track exact numbers of enemy killed or captured in Afghanistan. Instead, daily reports from the International Security Assistance Force, the NATO-led coalition, use vague descriptions like “few” or “several,” “multiple” or “numerous;” even “many.”
The measurements can mean anywhere from three to “more than 20.”
Using that math, U.S. and allied forces during the first half of September captured or killed about 400 insurgents. But if the entire Taliban force consists of about 20,000 fighters, shouldn’t losing hundreds every few weeks be a sign of a looming collapse?
Indeed, Mahnken said that by U.S. and NATO counts, the Taliban has been defeated several times over.
While Defense Department officials were shocked at the Camp Bastion incident, they say that insurgent attacks are down 24 percent since their peak in 2010, at the beginning of the surge, according to international security force numbers.
In 2010, between the May and August fighting season in Afghanistan, there were about 14,000 insurgent attacks, according the group’s statistics, which are all estimates
During the same period this year, there were about 12,000.
But that’s still higher than they were in 2009 before the surge, when nearly 8,000 insurgent attacks occurred. "
Here's the list of the ignorant and arrogant: The Indus The Kushan The Scythians The Parthians The Saffarid The Ghaznavid The Ghorid The Timurid The Hotaki The Durrani The Aryan The Persians The Sassanids The Hephthalites The Huns The Mughals The Arabs The Turkic The Hazaras The Khwarezmids The Mongols The British The British (again) The British (Yet again) The USSR The United States
Ain't found a way to kill them yet.