The Afghan Military Was Built Over 20 Years. How Did It Collapse So Quickly?
Comment est ce que tout s'effondre si vite ?
Notons également l'aide financière US de 8.2 milliards de $ pour équiper et former une armée digne de ce nom afin que les troupes occidentales quittent le pays un jour.
Au total 83 milliards sur 20 ans
This implosion comes despite the United States having poured more than $83 billion in weapons, equipment and training into the country’s security forces over two decades.
Tout cela pour terminer dans les mains des Talibans
mass surrenders, captured helicopters and millions of dollars of American-supplied equipment paraded by the Taliban on grainy cellphone videos.
L'armée s'écroule comme un château de cartes
The surrenders seem to be happening as fast as the Taliban can travel.
In some cities, heavy fighting had been underway for weeks on their outskirts, but the Taliban ultimately overtook their defensive lines and then walked in with little or no resistance.
Échec total de la stratégie d'obama
Building the Afghan security apparatus was one of the key parts of the Obama administration’s strategy as it sought to find a way to hand over security and leave nearly a decade ago. These efforts produced an army modeled in the image of the United States’ military, an Afghan institution that was supposed to outlast the American war.
La débâcle avait commencé largement avant le départ des américains
It began with individual outposts in rural areas where starving and ammunition-depleted soldiers and police units were surrounded by Taliban fighters and promised safe passage if they surrendered and left behind their equipment, slowly giving the insurgents more and more control of roads, then entire districts. As positions collapsed, the complaint was almost always the same: There was no air support or they had run out of supplies and food.
Il suffisait déjà aux Talibans de promettre aux soldats qu'il pouvaient rentrer chez eux en laissant le matériel
It began with individual outposts in rural areas where starving and ammunition-depleted soldiers and police units were surrounded by Taliban fighters and promised safe passage if they surrendered and left behind their equipment, slowly giving the insurgents more and more control of roads, then entire districts. As positions collapsed, the complaint was almost always the same: There was no air support or they had run out of supplies and food.
D'autre part le commandement Afghan était menteur et corrompu
Soldiers and policemen have expressed ever-deeper resentment of the Afghan leadership. Officials often turned a blind eye to what was happening, knowing full well that the Afghan forces’ real manpower count was far lower than what was on the books, skewed by corruption and secrecy that they quietly accepted.
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