Afghanistan: Hello?

[Honky Tonk]

^^^ A 'thought' out plan?

Oh......!

Similar to the plan, for example of leaving complex US military helicopters?

Not to mention personnel and others.

Note: helicopters at that level require heavy meticulous maintenance to run. So many hours vs air time. Far more than a fixed-winged aircraft.

Stop that and you're not flying for long.

You are correct on the care and feeding of attack helicopters. A couple of things though. There are capable helicopter pilots and mechanics in Afghanistan. Some are sympathizers and will have gone over to the other side. [why not? It's the side in power and at the current top of the Afghany food chain.] Our military didn't just just leave helicopters behind, they likely left the tools and parts necessary to keep them going. You're thinking along the lines of maintaining long term air power. If they have enough of them to launch short term attacks [border control, terrorism, quell riots, etc.] mission accomplished. But not to worry, our MIC has billions of dollars worth of more weaponry to sell to the military to "fight terrorism".