Posted on 08/14/2021 1:35:09 PM PDT by Hojczyk
Wouldn't be the first "Anniversary" hit. Ask Hillary...
Yup...he didn’t mention it before.
Where is Harris by the way. Haven’t heard from her since she went for a Covid test after Dems hugged her to death.
They should deploy the Tranny Brigade:
1 BN Totally Gay and Proud
2-3 BN Man Hating Lesbians
4-5-6 BN Tranny, Queer and Pedophile
And to show our resolve, they should be personally led by the Commander of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark A. Milley.
I’m not going to get into details, but Embassy and/or Non-combatant evacuation plans are in place for pretty much every Embassy and diplomatic post. Sometimes, like Benghazi, they never get implemented because political, diplomatic, or military leaders ignore signals or get caught flat-footed. But they do exist.
It’s been a bread an butter mission of the military since the first diplomats went overseas. The Boxer Rebellion in China about 120 years ago being the biggest most involved of these missions.
I worked an Afghanistan evac plan about 7 years ago. Something we write as a standard matter of procedure. Part and parcel of these types of plans are a security force that goes in and takes over operations. Their focus is on gathering up the all the evacuees, U.S. and other allied diplomats, U.S. citizens, foreign nationals with a U.S. connection, allied citizens, etc. That force can be scoped in size from a few hundred to tens of thousands, based on the threats the force faces. The military knows how to execute this tactical task, and will likely do it very well.
But that is the easy part, the real issue is that Afghanistan is a utter strategic failure by the foreign policy establishment. Remember, this was the “Good War,” unlike the bad war in Iraq. Just one thing, no one, neither Mr Bush’s team nor Mr. Obama’s team ever clearly articulated just what success would look like. In Iraq we, after some fits and starts, established a functional state, corrupt as hell, misfires a lot, and too willing to overlook Iranian misdeeds, but it is functional. Afghanistan never got there, once we pulled out of an area, it collapsed back into tribal infighting once any pressure, either political or military, was applied. The diplomats and senior military leaders fooled themselves into thinking just a little more time would get them to turn the corner. But it never happened. We never could figure out how to turn the Afghan government and military into something that could stand on its own.
Mr. Trump took the least bad option he could find. Mr. Biden in his zeal to dump anything related to his predecessor found the most bad option and now soldiers and Marines will have to clean up the mess as best they can.
Another 15,000 troops to guard them. See how easy it all is?
Seems to me you want to get everyone out now...if the only way out is the airport...
Would not take much to shut that down....shoot down a few planes and it is over...
Plus how far do you have to fly to yet there now...if you need are cover to get out???
This fvktard actually blamed Trump. Any more words from me are counter productive.
Waving that 🌈 banner all over the place.
My prediction from this morning comes true. 😣
No. These plans make no assumptions about time, other than the ever present reality of crisis action planning that you will never have enough time. Time available is a critical part of determining operational or tactical feasibility when you pull a plan off the shelf and turn it into an operation. I do not know first hand, but I suspect that part of the job of the the additional forces is to buy time to accomplish the evacuation. The Taliban know full well that taking on U.S. soldiers and Marines in a prepared defense is a no-win proposition. They’ll pester them, cause casualties if they can, but they’re not stupid enough to play to our strength and fight a set piece battle.
Any plan is only a reference, as the proverb states, they never survive contact with the enemy. But it is the planning that already occurred, the information gathered and requirements identified that are priceless to those executing an operation in a crisis.
Everybody calm down. Per Biden the Afghan Army is over 300,000 strong and as well equipped as any army in the world.
That is all.
I understand your point, but I am not convinced that this iteration of political and military leadership is up to the task.
At the end of the day it is the caliber of the personnel in all elements of the operation that make or break any plan.....the less time there is the less room for incompetence or error.
So if you step on your Dick and get a political black eye you fix it with young American blood!
The problem is there’s no route of escape. How did they not have a plan?
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