The Laundry List Of Equipment Left Behind In Afghanistan
BY Herschel Smith
3 years, 2 months ago
From comments at this article. Unsourced, so I cannot verify.
What happened in Afghaistan was, at best, criminal negligence and at worst treason
American Aircraft, Equipment & Armored Vehicles
2,000 Armored Vehicles Including Humvees and MRAPs
75,989 Total Vehicles: FMTV, M35, Ford Rangers, Ford F350, Ford Vans, Toyota Pickups, Armored Security Vehicles etc.
45 UH-60 Blackhawk Helicopters
50 MD530G Scout Attack Helicopters
ScanEagle Military Drones
30 Military Version Cessnas
4 C-130s
29 Brazilian made A-29 Super Tucano Ground Attack Aircraft
Heavy Equipment, Including Bull Dozers, Backhoes, Dump Trucks, Excavators
=208+ Aircraft Total
At least 600,000+ Small arms M16, M249 SAWs, M24 Sniper Systems, 50 Calibers, 1,394 M203 Grenade Launchers, M134 Mini Gun, 20mm Gatling Guns and Ammunition
61,000 M203 Rounds
20,040 Grenades
Howitzers
Mortars +1,000’s of Rounds
162,000 pieces of Encrypted Military Communications Gear
16,000+ Night Vision Goggles
Newest Technology Night Vision Scopes
Thermal Scopes and Thermal Mono Googles
10,000 2.75 inch Air to Ground Rockets
Reconnaissance Equipment (ISR)
Laser Aiming Units
Explosives Ordnance C-4, Semtex, Detonators, Shaped Charges, Thermite, Incendiaries, AP/API/APIT
2,520 Bombs
Administration Encrypted Cell Phones and Laptops ALL operational
Pallets with Millions of Dollars in US Currency
Millions of Rounds of Ammunition including but not limited to 20,150,600 rounds of 7.62mm, 9,000,000 rounds of 50.caliber
Large Stockpile of Plate Carriers and Body Armor
US Military HIIDE, for Handheld Interagency Identity Detection Equipment Biometrics
That’s quite a list of hardware. Very responsible to leave behind in the hands of the enemy, yes? Hey, DoD does consider them to be the enemy, don’t they? Don’t they?
On September 3, 2021 at 12:20 pm, Never Detach From Reality said:
Jo Jo Magoo’s flying circus will drop participation trophies for the wymyns in the interest of equality as they treat the animals (dogs) with kindness.
Toyota says you got some ‘splainin’ to do Ford regarding the official truck sponsor of the The War Against Terrorism (TWAT).
Saw a C-130 banking hard to the left yesterday and thought…here comes the replacements.
The big box marts (CCP-Mart, Meijer, Target) can almost smell the EBT windfall that is coming.
On September 3, 2021 at 1:00 pm, Done. said:
T R E A S O N
On September 3, 2021 at 2:33 pm, MTHead said:
And now Biden is rejoining the UN treaty on small arms trade. You couldn’t write this as fiction. No one would believe it.
Isn’t this exactly how Obama/Hillary/McCain set-up ISIS in Iraq? Now we have the re-armed, “K” variant from Shitholistan.
Nothing like being obvious!
On September 3, 2021 at 3:35 pm, Fred said:
How can they blame all of this on Christian, white, heterosexual, gun owning men in America who just want to be left alone? They’ll find a way.
On September 3, 2021 at 5:41 pm, Georgiaboy61 said:
@ MTHead
Re: “Isn’t this exactly how Obama/Hillary/McCain set-up ISIS in Iraq? Now we have the re-armed, “K” variant from Sh*tholistan. Nothing like being obvious!”
It’s called the “universal caliphate” for a reason, and it is what Erdogan of Turkey, Obama and Soros, to name three principals, have been working on for some time now.
Recep Erdogan, the President of Turkey, is an unreconstructed neo-Ottoman and Sunni Muslim who sees himself as the sultan or caliph of the newly-reconstructed Ottoman Empire for the 21st century. He’s been funneling aid to ISIS and other Sunni jihadist/direct-action groups in Syria and elsewhere for years now. His son Bilal got caught in act some years back, of running an entire fleet of Turkish flagged oil tankers smuggling oil captured by ISIS to market. The proceeds of which would fund their operations.
Erdogan’s most-recent atrocity is his helping neighbor Azerbaijan – a fellow Muslim nation – defeat mostly-Christian Armenia in a war which saw the former bite off a large chunk of Armenian territory for herself.
In concert with Merkel in Germany and Hungarian-born U.S. citizen billionaire George Soros, Erdogan has funded and organized the de facto demographic invasion of Europe via “refugees” – a.k.a. soldiers of Allah – who have been flooding into Old Europe by the hundreds of thousands over recent years and months. Soon to come? Waves of Afghan “immigrants” as well.
Barack Hussein Obama is a practicing Sunni Muslim, and has been ever since his childhood in Indonesia, when he was adopted by Lolo Soetero,his stepfather and a Sunni Muslim. Under sharia (Islamic) law, identity as a Muslim is conferred through the male parent (or step-parent, as the case may be). Once Soertero was Barack’s legal guardian, Barry O. became a Muslim. A fact cemented by his education at an Islamic school or madrasa.
Leftists and apologists for Islam will claim that Obama is a Christian, but this is balderdash. Obama can recite lengthy passages from the Koran, Islam’s holy book, from memory and in perfectly-accented Arabic, and orders Christian symbols covered up when he is around them – but yeah, he’s a Christian, really!
For political purposes and appearance’s sake, he “went off” ISIS while in the Oval Office, but that was nothing more than a bit of geopolitical theater designed to derail his critics. In reality, he and his people have been working hard behind the scenes with the Turks and Sunni Arabs to promote the new caliphate. John Brennan, the former head of the CIA and a convert to Islam, has been no small help in this matter.
The Islamic Republics of Turkey and Pakistan are near-neighbors to Afghanistan. Are the Islamic supremacists making a play to form the new caliphate for which they have longed for so many years? Only time will tell, but Biden and company didn’t leave those weapons behind on purpose for nothing. Is China involved in this somehow, maybe via their “New Silk Road” initiative? Time will tell.
In closing, it bears close watching what the rivals of the Turks do and how they react to goings-on in Afghanistan.
The Iranians are, like their coreligionists, Muslims but they are Shi’ites, a sect which has been in conflict with Sunni Islam almost since the time Islam was formed 1,400 years ago. They are also “Aryans,” or Persians, meaning that they are culturally/racially-distinct from the Arabs – another reason for the enmity between them. Most of the Arab world is majority Sunni,whereas Iran is one of the centers of Shi’ite Islam in the world.
The Turks also have a history of conflict with the Arabs, even though they are Sunnis alike one another in that regard. They fought as recently as WWI, when the Turks sided with the Central Powers, and the Arabs under Lawrence of Arabia, with the British. But at present, they are playing nice with one another, since they share a number of goals. But that may not last for long. There is an undercurrent of dislike and loathing between them which recent amity has not abated.
These conflicts and disagreements aside, the formation of a new caliphate would probably unite Muslims regionally and perhaps even globally, as it would be a landmark accomplishment and reflect glory upon Sunni and Shi’ite, Arab and non-Arab alike.
On September 3, 2021 at 5:50 pm, Chris said:
They got some good stuff, mmmK.
We could endup with silos and more than the talibs have.
On September 3, 2021 at 7:05 pm, Steady Steve said:
The upper ranks of DoD (Joint Chiefs)consider us the enemy. Hopefully much of the lower ranks considers them domestic enemies and traitors.
On September 3, 2021 at 8:03 pm, newrouter said:
Similar but sourced:
https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/471738/
On September 4, 2021 at 1:39 am, Jimmy the Saint said:
“That’s quite a list of hardware. Very responsible to leave behind in the hands of the enemy, yes? Hey, DoD does consider them to be the enemy, don’t they? Don’t they?”
Of course it does. The vendors who sell spare parts, however….
On September 4, 2021 at 7:11 am, Wes said:
@Georgiaboy61 re “universal caliphate”
Go find Lara Logan’s interview on Fox w/Chaffetz on this exact topic. She lays it out pretty good.
Obama, Susan Rice… John Brennan cheerleading from the sidelines.
On September 4, 2021 at 11:57 am, MTHead said:
Georgia, And ain’t it just co-inky-dink how Biden put shifted all the oil revenues back to the middle-east?
On September 4, 2021 at 11:59 am, Ned said:
As Sun Tzu always said, if your enemy doesn’t have armored vehicles, drones, NVG, attack aircraft, etc, give him yours.
This seems like a plan – not an accident.
Meanwhile the southern border is open for business, and white males are still considered potential terrorists.
On September 4, 2021 at 12:58 pm, Factions Speak Louder Than Herds said:
Watching Fields Of Armor-Bear Trap the Afghanistan Documentary.
The decentralized tribal faction society is the key to why it is the Graveyard Of Empires.
The Soviets killed 1.5 million Afghanis and still lost with armor (T-72) featuring suspensions that fell apart on rough roads, the older T-55 and T-62 tanks were preferred and most Soviet soldiers said they fared better on foot where they could at least find some cover to “save their skin”.
One valley was attacked 9 times each time with 20,000 troops and beaten back every time by 3000 Mujahideen.
Brave mountain warriors would plant mines under old tank tracks and carefully recreate the tracks with sticks and pencils to make the next round of tanks think it was safe for passage.
Electronic time delay rocket launchers would fire after armor would pass by and set the timer for launch at about 150 yards.
On September 4, 2021 at 1:18 pm, bob sykes said:
The US generals and ambassadors believed their own lies that the Afghan National Government and Army were stable. When the whole house of cards collapsed in less than two weeks, they were lucky to do what they did, namely get out with minimal losses.
The actual scheduling of takeoffs and landings and the coordinated passenger transfers to other airlines once they got out was in fact excellent staff work. Especially considering the zero heads-up. The US military is still a master of logistics. The intelligence failures that led to the chaos outside the perimeter are pretty typical for all our intelligence agencies for many decades.
On September 4, 2021 at 1:25 pm, Georgiaboy61 said:
@ Wes
Re: “Go find Lara Logan’s interview on Fox w/Chaffetz on this exact topic. She lays it out pretty good. Obama, Susan Rice… John Brennan cheerleading from the sidelines.”
Thanks for the tip, I’ll do just that.
@ MTHead
Re: “And ain’t it just co-inky-dink how Biden put shifted all the oil revenues back to the middle-east?”
Yes, quite so. Foreign military aid disguised as something else, a retreat and negligence perhaps? Never judge the communists by what they say, but always by what they do. And right now, the “Red-Green Alliance” between the Marxists and the Muslims is a reality. One aimed all who stand in their way.
On September 4, 2021 at 2:02 pm, Brad said:
There’s a piece over on the American Thinker that deserves some consideration. What if the Chinese Blackmailed China Joe?
On September 4, 2021 at 5:04 pm, X said:
“Hey, DoD does consider them to be the enemy, don’t they? Don’t they?”
No, they consider you the enemy.
On September 4, 2021 at 10:58 pm, Georgiaboy61 said:
@ Brad
Re: “There’s a piece over on the American Thinker that deserves some consideration. What if the Chinese Blackmailed China Joe?”
Why would they have to blackmail Crazy Joe Biden? He’s one of their assets so they already own him. Long as he gets his cut of the swag, he’ll probably do whatever they want.
On September 5, 2021 at 1:44 am, Hudson H Luce said:
That’s a lot of hardware, the trouble is, is that there may not be either mechanics to maintain those weapons, spare parts to use in maintenance, or both. It’s definitely going to be a big haul for the CCP intelligence services, they’re probably taking a close look at all of that stuff and making copies of it. And the Taliban are by no means the sole rulers of Afghanistan, nor will the Chinese be, if they try to move in – https://www.dawn.com/news/1644548/battle-for-panjshir-on-as-taliban-face-stiff-resistance
As for the Sunni vs Shi’a conflict, it’s one which has been going on for over 1000 years, and given that the sides regard each other as apostates, and apostasy in Islam is a capital offense, it’s unlikely that this conflict will be soon resolved. And if China moves in and tries to impose its version of atheism, that’s another source of conflict, because atheism is also a capital offense in either Sunni or Shi’a shari’a – as is Buddhism and the making of images and statues of people or other living things, which is viewed as idolatry, another capital offense. That’s why the Taliban dynamited those ancient Buddha statues about 20 years ago.
On September 5, 2021 at 1:48 am, Hudson H Luce said:
Another group opposing the Taliban which is active in Afghanistan – https://www.dawn.com/news/1644581/the-khorasan-chapter-threat
On September 5, 2021 at 8:53 am, bob sykes said:
As a matter of simple fact, these arms were not handed over to the enemy. They were given to the Afghan National Army as part of our attempt to gin up an army that could defeat the Taliban. The collapse of that Army and the national government probably could have been foreseen were it not for the delusions and ambitions of our generals.
Jim’s blog has it nicely put:
“As the collapse began, but before the Officially Unofficial Press acknowledged that Kabul had fallen, I saw talking heads displaying awareness that this was a holy war, and awareness that you have to bring a gun to a gunfight and a faith to a holy war.”
Like the North Vietnamese 50 odd years ago, the Taliban simply refused to give up regardless of the costs to themselves. They fought the infidels with vision of God and Paradise in their heads.
Biden just was dealt a bad hand.
On September 5, 2021 at 11:17 am, Ohio Guy said:
Could the equipment left behind be connected to the protection of poppy production there? This Wiki link may suggest that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opium_production_in_Afghanistan
On September 5, 2021 at 12:01 pm, MTHead said:
Biden wasn’t dealt a bad hand. But he doesn’t have a choice. Hunter’s laptop in the FBI’s hands tells the whole story.
Deep state has him over a barrel. And he put himself there. If he doesn’t do what the voice in his ear tells him. His whole family goes to jail. It’s obvious that even Biden doesn’t want to move this fast. But the fix is in. And they need to make sure America is off the world stage for good.
And who is next in line? The laughing whore. Fiercely loyal to her pip. (The same guy talking in Biden’s ear.) She just as compromised.
Satan must be laughing till he pisses himself.