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You know how everyone's worried about AI taking control from humans. The robots will roll over and humans will be left as their own defenders of last resort. Apply that to Afghanistan. Shouldn't we have used the last 20 years to build an army of 10m badass female warriors?

Mad Mix

@goingtogetworse

Aug 17, 2021

Any plan that would assume a timeline of 50 years would be better. (Less would probably not work)

Jesse Powell

@jespow

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@goingtogetworse

Apparently, there are only 200k Taliban. Even 10% of the adult female population would have them outnumbered 5:1. How do the Taliban take over without massive pushback? I don't understand why the US had to be there at all if there was even a small amount of local opposition.

4:19 AM · Aug 17, 2021Twitter Web App

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Not sure of specifics. Here are the bits I heard: 1. Afghan Army is heavily dependent on US logistics. Without it they are neutered. 2. Command paralysis. Armies need orders and confident command. 3. Lack of (stolen) wages leading to easy terms of surrender. I suspect 1 is key

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