The Pentagon has now fucked up two wars in a row and wasted trillions with no career consequences for failure, and not even much Congressional interest in what went wrong. The same pattern extends to prohibitively costly dead-end weapons programs. There's no way to fail at DoD
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To put it another way, we could have given the Taliban billions of dollars and a fleet of American military hardware in October 2001 to get the same outcome we bought with 20 years of war. This is not a time to close ranks and heal, but a time to investigate the hell out of DoD
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I've heard tales of generals declaring that areas coded 'red' on the monitoring system - itself a pretty dubious tool - were actually green - i.e. insurgent free - essentially arbitrarily - not even for career reasons as such, but personal conviction/reliance on unreliable intel
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From the sound of this article, it’s the latter. But never rule out the former. _https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/aug/14/afghanistan-taliban-us-troops …
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Withdraw was not in the military industrial complex interest, so they sabotaged.
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