VERY IMPORTANT: WTF happened to the US Army in Afghanistan? The Questions nobody asks!

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I was thinking this evening about this Afghanistan debacle, and there are things that don’t make one ounce of sense.

As I understand it, the USA had 10,000 troops in Afghanistan, with, clearly, quite a LOT of military equipment. Over here in South Africa, we’ve been looking at the amount of arms and vehicles and aircraft that fell into enemy hands, and frankly, we were astounded. You could fit out a pretty damned nifty national army with that equipment.

An Army, any army, always protects it’s equipment. So how was it that the US Army did not protect it’s equipment from the Taliban? It should have defended the bases where the equipment was. But the equipment, vast amounts of it, fell into enemy hands … unscathed … it appears.

Secondly, if an army, any army, can’t protect the equipment, it ALWAYS BLOWS IT UP. It NEVER allows THE ENEMY to seize it. So how on earth was it that the US Army did not blow up or disable all that mass of equipment?

Thirdly, if you see things going wrong and the enemy is coming to overwhelm you, you begin to do things. To take action. Didn’t the Army see things happening and warn their superiors?

My suspicion is that the Army probably did it’s work the way it was supposed to. I am suspecting that we will discover that politicians or some other problem in the "Political leadership" allowed this debacle to occur.

SOMETHING WENT VERY WRONG IN AFGHANISTAN – and I would like to see what the troops and their officers have to say.