I have a son who is part of the 101st. Half his battalion is over in Poland. If anything is about to happen over there he will hear about it and I’ll let y’all know. So far not a peep.
I have a son who is part of the 101st. Half his battalion is over in Poland. If anything is about to happen over there he will hear about it and I’ll let y’all know. So far not a peep.
So much for OPSEC, I suppose. (Operational Security; not telling the world what a particular unit is doing/will do, as the open-source intelligence gatherers can put together quite a lot to, in essence, figure out what's in the classified info.) When I was on active duty, we were told that we could put our own lives at risk by telling our loved ones too much.
The Soviets retreated from Afghanistan after 10 years of losses which nearly bankrupted their country...
12 years later: The US went in. (Because, you know, a better army... 😉)
I was wondering whether the Soviets left millions of perfectly good munitions and extremely expensive tanks behind.
So I did a bit of digging.
"The main thing was that it was organized. From our perspective, the evacuation was done just right," he says. "We left civilian infrastructure but took every tank and machine gun with us."
I suspect it depends on tactics. Russia has an army with standard large army tactics required. Afghanistan was an insurgent force, fighting based on fundamental religious values (whether or not you agree with the values doesn't affect their commitment to their cause). US large armed forces tactics won't work against insurgents, but might against traditional large unit enemies. Also, quite possibly US never intended to win in middle east , just to expend consumables that Raytheon sells so senators get rich off the war action.
I have a son who is part of the 101st. Half his battalion is over in Poland. If anything is about to happen over there he will hear about it and I’ll let y’all know. So far not a peep.
Prays and safety for all of them. And tell them thank you for serving
So much for OPSEC, I suppose. (Operational Security; not telling the world what a particular unit is doing/will do, as the open-source intelligence gatherers can put together quite a lot to, in essence, figure out what's in the classified info.) When I was on active duty, we were told that we could put our own lives at risk by telling our loved ones too much.
My husband did special forces for 20 years. I’m quite aware of opsec. It’s public knowledge and far from classified.
OPSEC is for civilians these days....no way you are hiding battalions in todays world.
It's pretty common knowledge they are over there.
US troops will not do well against Russian forces in the Ukraine area.
Note how bad we did in Afghan. The NATO provisioned Ukrops are failing now so I do hope the Western troops stay out of this.
The Soviets retreated from Afghanistan after 10 years of losses which nearly bankrupted their country...
12 years later: The US went in. (Because, you know, a better army... 😉)
I was wondering whether the Soviets left millions of perfectly good munitions and extremely expensive tanks behind.
So I did a bit of digging.
"The main thing was that it was organized. From our perspective, the evacuation was done just right," he says. "We left civilian infrastructure but took every tank and machine gun with us."
https://www.npr.org/2021/09/30/1040536017/afghanistan-withdrawal-russia-soviet-afghan-war-veterans
Nice that the General and his son were the last ones to cross the bridge back into Soviet territory. All the General's troop were ahead of him.
If you read that story carefully, he admits it was propaganda, but I believe the part where he says they took all their equipment...
Ah! The slippery world again! I didn't catch that! And good for you!
They actually didn't. There were huge fields of armor left abandoned around kabul along with tons of planes.
They then collapsed shortly after.
If you google it you'll see they were still there in 2001 and I think were only scrapped in the 2010s.
I suspect it depends on tactics. Russia has an army with standard large army tactics required. Afghanistan was an insurgent force, fighting based on fundamental religious values (whether or not you agree with the values doesn't affect their commitment to their cause). US large armed forces tactics won't work against insurgents, but might against traditional large unit enemies. Also, quite possibly US never intended to win in middle east , just to expend consumables that Raytheon sells so senators get rich off the war action.
With all my being I agree with you. I pray for the troops everyday!!!!!
Very bad take.
American forces would do very, very well against Russians.
We actually have a functioning air force, logistic trains, and motivated forces without a draft.
Fighting counter insurgency doesn't equal fighting conventional style.
Russia struggled to fight unconventional forces in Chechnya and Syria and Afghanistan.
The USA beat Iraq in under a month, 12000 miles from home.
Our equipment actually works.
Nothing will happen, just like when Trump put an armored brigade on Russia's back door.