Actual info on the Military Equipment captured by the Taliban
Firstly, most if not all of the equipment has been equipment given to the Afghani Army over the last 20 years of different administrations. They pretty much have been getting stuff "lost" by the Afghani army for years anyway. But we have to drop the idea that all this crap was stuff abandoned by the US army as they fled the country, becasue Trump announced he was drawing down the amount of troops in the country to 2000 droops by January 15th, and they had been closing down bases since trump started negotiations with the Taliban in march 2020.In any case this is a list of what the US Army gave the Afghanis over the course of 20 years
In response to: The Biden administration admitted on Tuesday that the Taliban had captured a significant amount of U.S. military equipment originally supplied to Afghan security forces during the militants’ blitzkrieg on Kabul in recent weeks — and the U.S. doesn’t know exactly how much American gear they’ve lost to terrorist hands.
“We don’t have a complete picture, obviously, of where every article of defense materials has gone but certainly, a fair amount of it has fallen into the hands of the Taliban,” White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said during a press conference. “??Obviously, we don’t have a sense that they are going to readily hand it over to us at the airport.”
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While Sullivan did not specify what a “fair amount” of defense materials entailed, he had previously blamed the members of the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) for laying down their arms before the Taliban onslaught, stating that the U.S.’s $86 billion in funding over the last two decades[ “could not give them the will and ultimately they decided that they would not fight for Kabul.”
At the moment, there’s still a lot that senior U.S. officials don’t know about American weapons falling into the hands of the Taliban. But based on past reporting from U.S. government watchdogs, the militant group may have inherited a broad arsenal of American weapons from the hands of fleeing Afghan security forces.
According to a 2017 Government Accountability Office report, the U.S. military transferred roughly 75,898 vehicles, 599,690 weapons systems, and 208 aircraft to the ANDSF between fiscal years 2003 and 2016. And according to a recent Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction analysis, the last few years have seen the Defense Department send the ANDSF more than 7,000 machine guns, more than 4,700 Humvees, and more than 20,000 grenades. This is to say nothing of the communications, explosive ordnance disposal, and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) equipment transferred to the ANDSF over the course of two decades as detailed in the GAO report. According to the Intercept, the Taliban have even seized U.S. military biometrics devices “that could aid in the identification of Afghans who assisted coalition forces.”
“We don’t have a complete picture, obviously, of where every article of defense materials has gone but certainly, a fair amount of it has fallen into the hands of the Taliban,” White House National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan said during a press conference. “??Obviously, we don’t have a sense that they are going to readily hand it over to us at the airport.”
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While Sullivan did not specify what a “fair amount” of defense materials entailed, he had previously blamed the members of the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) for laying down their arms before the Taliban onslaught, stating that the U.S.’s $86 billion in funding over the last two decades[ “could not give them the will and ultimately they decided that they would not fight for Kabul.”
At the moment, there’s still a lot that senior U.S. officials don’t know about American weapons falling into the hands of the Taliban. But based on past reporting from U.S. government watchdogs, the militant group may have inherited a broad arsenal of American weapons from the hands of fleeing Afghan security forces.
According to a 2017 Government Accountability Office report, the U.S. military transferred roughly 75,898 vehicles, 599,690 weapons systems, and 208 aircraft to the ANDSF between fiscal years 2003 and 2016. And according to a recent Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction analysis, the last few years have seen the Defense Department send the ANDSF more than 7,000 machine guns, more than 4,700 Humvees, and more than 20,000 grenades. This is to say nothing of the communications, explosive ordnance disposal, and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) equipment transferred to the ANDSF over the course of two decades as detailed in the GAO report. According to the Intercept, the Taliban have even seized U.S. military biometrics devices “that could aid in the identification of Afghans who assisted coalition forces.”
Astute observers will note that the $85 Billion in funding that the US gave over the last 2 decades is the same number that Biden is said to have left behind in Afghanistan. How He personally could be responsible for everything given to the Afghan Army over 20 years is an question only the demented can answer.
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Interestingly Biden is still more popular than Trump at the same length of time in office according to the majority of polls.
The brunt of this fiasco lies squarely on Trump's shoulders.
For heavens sake there was a picture of him in the press yesterday where he'd fallen asleep during a meeting with the PM of Israel, and he still has a 49% approval rating
It wasn't always like that.
Regardless, thanks for an informative blog again mr. T.