The US military plainly failed in Afghanistan. The generals need to answer for it.

[rangerrebew]

The US military plainly failed in Afghanistan. The generals need to answer for it.
Andrew J. Bacevich, Responsible Statecraft
Aug 6, 2021, 9:25 AM
 
Gen. David Petraeus. Jason Reed / Reuters

    The US military hasn't been defeated in Afghanistan, but it was nowhere near to accomplishing its mission.

    As US forces leave Afghanistan, the generals who led them need to explain how the war reached such a dismal end.

    Andrew J. Bacevich is the president of the Quincy Institute.
 

David Petraeus — remember him? — recently confided to a nationwide television audience that prospects in Afghanistan are looking grim.

"The situation on the ground," the retired general told CNN's Fareed Zakaria, "has become increasingly dire with each passing week."

https://www.businessinsider.com/us-generals-need-to-answer-for-military-failure-in-afghanistan-2021-8

[rangerrebew]

If Critical Race Theory, recruitment of more gays and trannies had started sooner, more women had been on the front lines, and serious PC instituted, everything would have been fine.

[Free Vulcan]

No one ever seems to answer the question of how you are going to win in Afghanistan, when most of those you are fighting are based in Pakistan, a nuclear power who's intelligence service supports and nurtures the Taliban in their country.

[Absalom]

Down thru history, War has been fought for serious & strategic reasons;
so what was strategic about Afghanistan, a third world boil on the rectum of the Globe???
Were we serious, our Military would have examined how Alexander the Great dealt w/them!!!
Von Clausewitz, arguably the greatest of military theoreticians, asserted that successful
Warfare requires the application of measured force and vision, compelling your enemy
to do your will; his prime examples being Napoleon and Wellington.
In the Great War we were led by Pershing while in the 2nd by Eisenhower, Patton & MacArthur.
But since Vietnam it's been one Pentagon political crony type after another w/palpable results.
We get the level of competence we tolerate and deserve!!!

[Fishrrman]

It's not "the generals' fault".
It's ours.

We won't acknowledge WHO/WHAT "the enemy" is in the Middle East.
And of course since we won't face that reality, we can't fight the enemy there, nor anywhere else.

Actually, it's more of a danger to us that "the enemy" is now HERE on our home soil, and increasing in strength.

It's even worked its way into the halls of Congress and the federal court system.

[sneakypete]

Wrong!

Far be it for me to be caught protecting General  Officers,but General Officers in the US military do NOT create policy. What they do is say "Yessir,yessir,3 bags full,sir!" when given orders by their political masters.