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2011-07-17 Afghanistan

UK: Armed Forces too weak to defeat the Taliban

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Posted by tipper 2011-07-17 08:32|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#1 ...force sent into Helmand in 2006 was ill-equipped, under-resourced and too weak to defeat the Taliban.

Like the rest of NATO. American military welfare backed by a lack of political resolve to tell the dependents to get on with their own defense for decades has simply mirrored the same process of the American social welfare system. Dependents in both cases exercised their own free will to stay in that condition. Well, the money is now running out.

Posted by Procopius2k 2011-07-17 09:10|| 2011-07-17 09:10|| Front Page Top

#2 And the ensuing collapse will be precipitous and dangerous, I fear.

Posted by lotp 2011-07-17 10:06|| 2011-07-17 10:06|| Front Page Top

#3 ...One of the worst things about the coming crunch is that it will almost certainly mean a retreat from Europe (as opposed to NATO) we'll still be in the treaty, but the troops and planes will have to come home, we just wont be able to afford them. That will be when the full extent of NATO's military collapse will become evident. We'll also learn why it was once said that NATO was designed to keep the Germans in and the Russians out.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2011-07-17 10:48|| 2011-07-17 10:48|| Front Page Top

#4 Germans down. Americans in.

Posted by Eohippus Phater7165 2011-07-17 14:57|| 2011-07-17 14:57|| Front Page Top

#5 UK DEFENCE SELECT COMMITTEE

versus

* GUARDIAN.UK > ARMY TO SHRINK TO SMALLEST SIZE SINCE THE BOER WAR WHILE RESERVISTS' ROLE BOLSTERED [ + $$$ funding for Military Equipment]. UK Army to shrink to 84,000 personnel from 100,000 after 2014 when the US-NATO Afghan withdrawal is slated for completion.

* PEOPLE'S DAILY FORUMS > OBAMA: FISCAL COMMISSION CUT DEFENSE TOO DEEPLY.

[BREAKER MORANT, + YOUNG WINSTON [Churchill = Boer War, run for Parliament] early 1970's movie here].

Posted by JosephMendiola 2011-07-18 00:04|| 2011-07-18 00:04|| Front Page Top

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