11th century mentality running the show.

China still has its embassy up and running in Kabul, they better be paying attention or they will be the next nation to fall down the Afghan rabbit hole.

Taliban Vs China. This will be interesting

Get the people out in the next few days and bomb the cunts everyone 

The end 

came across this

interesting reading

attributed to Mick Spring CSM, who spent 39 years in the Australian Army retiring in December 2017, at the rank of Warrant Officer Class One.

'Whilst the unfolding events are difficult for the majority of the Afghan nation, during my deployment in 2010, we began to see the writing on the wall. Our rotations mission was to mentor our Afghan partners and to provide them with the tools necessary to rebel the Taliban forces once we were gone. During my time, there were approximately 350 thousand Afghan security force members within the country and approximately 150 thousand Taliban fighters, both in Afghan, but the majority being in Pakistan. The Pakistan government harboured them and they came and went as they pleased through the Hindu Kush. Small forward operating bases, mainly manned by the US forces monitored this. They were careful not to leave a large footprint and only harassed the FOB's, then fled back to Pakistan.
By way of history, Afghanistan is made up of about 16 major tribes. The major tribe being Pashtun, but within that tribe, there are about 350 to 400 tribes or clans. They are the ruling tribe in Afghanistan and the major Taliban stronghold.
Given that fact, you can imagine that many members of the Afghan National Security Force (ANSF) would also be Pashtun. I'll leave you to draw your own conclusions.
What the coalition forces did was to provide first class training and equipment to allow the ANSF to protect and defend their country after our withdrawal. The fact that they have not, tells me a lot about their tribal system. They are loyal, firstly to their tribe, then their country, which has allowed the Taliban to sweep through the country and get the ANSF to lay down their weapons and in turn, they have scooped up these weapons, vehicles, ammunition, aircraft etc and are now theirs to use against the weaker tribes.
A perfect example of this tribal system happened when I was there. The Afghan Colonel in charge of his troops was from the Hazara tribe, his Lieutenant was from a clan of the Pashtun tribe, he could not tell the Lieutenant what to do as he was from an inferior tribe, but was far superior in rank. What hope do they have.
Obviously, we entered Afghan to flush out Al Qaeda as a coalition partner, not the Taliban. They were collateral damage or a secondary target as they agreed to harbour Al Qaeda. Once Bin Laden was dead, the Taliban were the main focus.
With the Taliban back in power, my main concern is that Al Qaeda will reinvigorate and worldwide terrorist attacks will once again start to occur and with the world in a pandemic it is an optimum time for both planning and execution with many countries solely focused on COVID.'

Sad whats happening after spending 2 years of my life there but at least they dont have covid lockdowns!

Good you got back in one piece, and your mates too, I hope.

Well done.

Me Im in once piece physically with added titanium & screws 

Sorry

That sucks.

Don't always appreciate how good we have it.

Interesting to see the Northern Alliance 2.0 has started in the Panjshir Valley. The Panjshir Province is only area that is actively resisting the Taliban and some familiar names, Massoud (the son) being one of them, will now engage with the Taliban in a less than friendly manner...heavily armed with American weaponry courtesy of our friends in Langley.

Deja vu or what?

Makes interesting reading.

Also makes me wonder why our media aren’t reporting it.

Glad I’m here.

What was it like when you were there  Nath 103 ?

Did you have any faith in the plan?

It was a a 'Cluster-F' alright.