Twenty years of US occupation of Afghanistan have seen billions of dollars spent subsidizing the Afghan military into the unsustainably large force it is today. Afghan officials have repeatedly said they believe that it is self-sufficient for defending Afghanistan.
US Joint Chiefs of Staff chairman Gen. Mark Milley is a lot more non-committal in that regard, saying the Afghan military has an uncertain future, and faces bad possible outcomes.
Talking about the Afghan military, Milley presented them as “reasonably well equipped, reasonably well trained, reasonably well led.” That would be a better sounding situation if the US, again, hadn’t spent billions of dollars getting them there.
The Afghans insist their military will be fine, and with ongoing efforts at a peace deal with the Taliban, the road to stability is doubtless paved with diplomacy, not endless military engagements.
In that regard, the Afghan military is plenty ready, and in the grand scheme of things, they’re a bigger and more ready military than Afghanistan could ever support on its own, so they’d better make it work.
Afghans are resonably trained / equipped ? , but the Taliban will still kick their asses anyway , the US Marines couldn`t beat them in 20 years the Afghans have no chance.
Isn’t that what they said about South Vietnam?
Another idiot general who sticks his foot in his mouth. If you couldn’t do better than “reasonably” after 20 years you really should keep your mouth shut. I guess kissing ass for a living must lower one’s IQ.