Afghanistan: Hello?

[Richard]

Actually a majority of the country’s listed in the really long post that I took the time to read,also had a presence in Afghanistan.

We just do not hear about them because they are not our troops.

Afghanistan also saw the increase of the use of private contractors to wage war,we had up to 50% private contractors in force,paid under a separate budget of the DOD,but not called or counted as troops.

Alot of countries use these little wars in order to gain real world experience,so they may have also had a short term presence in order to do that.

You can train a military all day long,but it needs personal that has experience in real battles.

It is also used as a development tool,for testing weapons and technology in real battle field conditions.

One positive thing that came out of it was a blood clotting agent used on wounds,once applied it instantly stops the bleeding.

It saved lives while people were transported from direct action to emergency care outside of the battle field.

That technology is now used to save lives in the civilian side.

All or majority of those countries still have a presence in other wars or police actions currently going on that the media does not cover.

The issue is when you involve different countries in police actions there is a pissing contest in who has command and control.

The US does not have power or command and control over foreign militaries.

Enter the blue helmets,like what is being used in the African region,is a UN run coalition of multiple country representatives combined as a force.

Its kinda like tits on a bull though,because they are there in force but you cannot shoot anybody without permission or until after they shoot you first.

They just maintain a presence as a force as a deterrent.

Afghanistan is a nation of tribal order,always has been,a bunch of different tribes controlling land sections that have different beliefs and versions on his each sector should be run.

Kinda like if all the states in this country operated as a separate country.

Mixed in there are those who want to eliminate everybody else that does not to agree with them and control the whole country.

IE: the taliban

We were not at war in Afghanistan,we were at war with a few tribes whose only intention was to remove western society from the earth.

Afghanistan was just the soil they were standing on,we were there picking out the bad apples off of the tree.

The objective never was to change something that has not changed in over 2000 years.

Considering they freed over 7000 prisoners where some were the leaders were al qada,I think we will be revisiting the whole { never forget } aspect shortly.

The taliban is a global network,with many different factions,Al qada was a offshoot of one of those factions.

There are only a couple of leaders involved in the current situation,what happens when the other factions start sowing their oats?

Russia,China and Iran are the only ones maintaining embassies there,which makes it ripe to use others for their own plausible deniability,just like we did.

We are only seeing the lid on the can of worms that is getting ready to open.