Taliban forces attacked a key US outpost in the Nangarhar Province today, effectively shutting down the key eastern supply route into neighboring Pakistan, and underscoring just how bad the security situation in Afghanistan is getting.
NATO downplayed the incident, saying that no soldiers were killed in the three hour gunbattle and that the interior of the outpost was not breached by the insurgents, but that may not have been the point.
The Taliban forces destroyed over 30 military supply vehicles in the attack in addition to temporarily shutting down the supply route, underscoring their ability to hit sensitive NATO targets even now, 12 years into the war.
Supply vehicles are regularly hit on the road in both Pakistan and Afghanistan, meaning maintaining the supply lines of occupation forces is always difficult, with the US regularly having to rely on a more expensive northern route.
It does not make sense for wherever America start wars she always manage to get her ass broken.
The northern supply route which might get shut down by the Russians if they are too pissed off at the Americans over the impending attack on Syria. Cutting off your nose to spite your face or what.