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re: USA tells Brits to stop extracting their trapped Citizens
Posted on 8/19/21 at 9:40 am to Chromdome35
Posted on 8/19/21 at 9:40 am to Chromdome35
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If this breaks out into a shooting situation, our troops at the airport are sitting ducks. All of our people in the city are sitting ducks.
its a bad scenario, but the Military just said we have F18's flying over Kabul RIGHT NOW. People are making it sound like we dont even have a way to retaliate if it comes to that.
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Posted on 8/19/21 at 9:48 am to SportTiger1
Yea, I'm sure we have drones available as well as other air assets like B52's.
The challenge is we don't have many available on short notice and the nearest airbase is a long way off, the nearest carrier is a 2-hour flight away.
We can drop some bombs, fire off a few Hellfire missiles, kill a couple of hundred Taliban and a ton of afghan civilians. But we should be ready to lose a lot of the troops at the airport and watch America's getting dragged through the streets while that is all going down.
We have been conditioned to think the American Military is all-mighty, and it absolutely is when we can use its full capabilities in a combined arms manner. We don't have those capabilities QUICKLY available in Afghanistan now which puts us in a really tough spot.
The challenge is we don't have many available on short notice and the nearest airbase is a long way off, the nearest carrier is a 2-hour flight away.
We can drop some bombs, fire off a few Hellfire missiles, kill a couple of hundred Taliban and a ton of afghan civilians. But we should be ready to lose a lot of the troops at the airport and watch America's getting dragged through the streets while that is all going down.
We have been conditioned to think the American Military is all-mighty, and it absolutely is when we can use its full capabilities in a combined arms manner. We don't have those capabilities QUICKLY available in Afghanistan now which puts us in a really tough spot.
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