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NATO opens northern supply route to Afghanistan | |
2010-06-12 | |
NATO has opened an alternate supply route to Afghanistan via Russia and Central Asia - a critical development that gives it the ability to bypass the previous ambush-prone main routes through Pakistan, the alliance said on Friday.
Individual alliance members, such as Germany and the US, were allowed to use the so-called northern route for non-lethal materials - but it was closed to alliance forces as a whole. About 14,000 maritime containers full of supplies had arrived via the northern route before it was opened to the whole alliance, US Defence Secretary Robert Gates said. There are two other possible access routes to Afghanistan, through Iran and China. But the alliance cannot use the one through Iran's south-eastern port of Chahar Bahar because of the political dispute over Tehran's nuclear weapons. Separately, a dirt road from China through the Wakhan Corridor, leads through some of the world's most mountainous terrain. | |
Posted by:Fred |
#6 Notice no mention of what central Asian country it passes through. |
Posted by: Anonymoose 2010-06-12 20:05 |
#5 anytime in the future, Pappy. But it will come from a nuke exchange with India, not at our hands, and in a total jihadi meltdown by the Paki "leadership". Just my "Magic 8-ball" prediction /Low-budget Nostradamus |
Posted by: Frank G 2010-06-12 17:02 |
#4 The best way to have dealt with the supply situation would have been to use the US military to "take and hold" a supply corridor from the Persian Gulf, up through Pakistan to Afghanistan. We didn't have the assets. Crushing Pakistan would go a long way toward solving most of the problems in that part of South Asia, including Bangladesh. Before or after dealing with Iraq, General? |
Posted by: Pappy 2010-06-12 16:51 |
#3 Crushing Pakistan would go a long way toward solving most of the problems...OP Might solve the problem entirely. |
Posted by: Besoeker 2010-06-12 16:14 |
#2 The best way to have dealt with the supply situation would have been to use the US military to "take and hold" a supply corridor from the Persian Gulf, up through Pakistan to Afghanistan. Do it through Quetta and solve two problems at once. Failing to secure supply lines is the worst kind of tactical logistics error you can make. Pakistan is NOT an "ally", but a duplicitous part of the problem. Crushing Pakistan would go a long way toward solving most of the problems in that part of South Asia, including Bangladesh. |
Posted by: Old Patriot 2010-06-12 16:12 |
#1 ION TOPIX/NEWS KERALA > [Persian Gulf = Gulf of Arabia, Bombay, etc.]GULF MARITIME REGION A TARGET FOR TERROR ATTACK. |
Posted by: JosephMendiola 2010-06-12 00:03 |