Can U.S. Air Power And Afghan's Warlords Defeat The Taliban As They Did In 2001?

Battle of Tora Bora in 2001  

Rebecca Grant, FOX News: Battle for Afghanistan – Taliban could be defeated by this brutal strategy 

Don’t forget these two big factors -- warlords and airpower 

Twenty years of fighting, 2,352 American deaths and it comes down to this: can Afghanistan’s government forces pull back and hold on until the Taliban over-extends its military push? 

The battle isn’t looking good. Taliban offensives have taken 12 of Afghanistan’s 34 provincial capitals since last week. The Afghanistan Army head was fired by Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on Wednesday. Ghani and top military official Abdul Rashid Dostum flew north to build support for the crucial battle around Mazar-i-Sharif. Afghan forces are pulling back. 

What the Pentagon won’t tell you is the Battle for Afghanistan is a deliberate gamble that’s been planned out since 2019.  

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WNU Editor: 2021 is not 2001. There is no political will in the White House to return to Afghanistan in force, and most of the warlords in Afghanistan have already been routed by the Taliban in the past month. Abdul Rashid Dostum's own home was ransacked last week .... Afghanistan: Taliban ransacks Marshal Abdul Rashid Dostum's house, loots his weapons (ANI).



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