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2021-11-07 Afghanistan

Requiem For The Afghan ‘Fabergé Egg’ Army: Why Did It Crack So Quickly?

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Posted by trailing wife 2021-11-07 00:00|| || Front Page|| [1 views ] Top

#1 MWI used an interesting Russian Fabergé egg analogy. A pity Russian 'Lessons Learned' in Afghanistan could not have been given an in-depth study as well. But perhaps it was, and the concept of "Endless Wars" was given the MIC stamp of approval.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-11-07 04:10|| 2021-11-07 04:10|| Front Page Top

#2 You mean the rise of ISIS and overrunning Iraq didn't give you a hint? It's all those happy and glad reports you demanded of the trainers that you could pass upward for your careerist track.

It's what happens when you blind yourselves to social anthropology and what makes up a population. They're tribal. Period.

Now about indoctrinating your own troops to hate themselves and America...

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-11-07 07:19|| 2021-11-07 07:19|| Front Page Top

#3 I'm awaiting General Milley's comment. Hopefully he's not busy looking for the....egg.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-11-07 07:50|| 2021-11-07 07:50|| Front Page Top

#4 If it wasn't viable on its own, no country's army or government will suddenly become so just because dollars are showered on them.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-11-07 08:12|| 2021-11-07 08:12|| Front Page Top

#5 They're savages. Stupid, brutal, cowardly, greedy, no ability to delay gratification. Any other q's?

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2021-11-07 08:26|| 2021-11-07 08:26|| Front Page Top

#6 The problem is, upper echelon military people and upper level gummint people gravitate towards the corrupt wherever we go. They are merely seeking out kindred spirits.

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-11-07 08:43|| 2021-11-07 08:43|| Front Page Top

#7 They were there (those that actually were there, there was supposed to be a lot of 'ghosts'), for a paycheck. Not because they wanted to do it. And they had to kick back to the boss.
When things went south, they went home.
This is what happens when you treat the military as jobs program.

Posted by ed in texas 2021-11-07 11:16|| 2021-11-07 11:16|| Front Page Top

#8 Per the late great political scientist Sam Huntington, there are societies that have effective governance, and a much larger number (at least 5x as many) societies where the government does not govern.

In Huntington's day, he placed the USSR in the former category along with the USA. His point was that we could not think about rallying the chaotic, ungoverned world to the cause of democracy.

The term is simply irrelevant to the main challenge those societies face, which is simply to establish political order defined largely in terms of effective governance that is not shambolicly inept and corrupt.

We Are Ruled By Morons ...who never read or learned from Huntington and 2,000 years of history

Posted by Merrick Ferret 2021-11-07 11:51|| 2021-11-07 11:51|| Front Page Top

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