How did the Taliban manage to defeat the most powerful nation in human history?
Americans can't fight
They're a merchant people
More like the merchant's merchandise.
>defeat
They could nuke them early morning in they wanted to. It's just that Afghan state-building is a failure.
The conflict in Afghanistan is currently inconclusive.
They are use to fighting bigger countries.
No, they couldn't.
the trick to fighting americans. keep sending attackers until they get tired of killing you
The U.S. could nuke Afghanistan into another dimension. Despite the bevy of war crimes they have committed in the Middle-East, they are at least making some effort to avoid mass civilian causalities. Generally, I don't think it will be easy for a traditional standing army to defeat a guerrilla-style insurgency if they are not willing to simply eradicate any people or populations who seem somewhat suspect.
To be fair, Afghanistan was socialist before the soviets invaded.
So really, it wasn't a defeat for them at all.
Whou would stop them? That's figurative anyway, only with conventional arsenal they could already do it.
>they are at least making some effort to avoid mass civilian causalities.
They're not. The only reason americans aren't dropping nukes around the world is because they are afraid of retaliation, especially economic.
That's simple, Taliban have foreign support, hide within civilians, and are tolerated by the Afghan corrupt gov't. With these reasons conventional warfare can't be carried out, thus the end goal keeps shifting, and the war can never been won.
China, Russia, Pakistan
Even your own country would not take it lightly if some obese subhuman started dropping nukes
>and are tolerated by the Afghan corrupt gov't.
The same government that America put in place. Why are american foreign policy so stupid, retarded and useless?
International politics. No modern war can be fought without diplomacy, especially if you're a world superpower with nukes, because the other world superpowers with nukes get scared and angry
No one says it will be took lightly but do you really think that Russia, France, China, Pakistan would retaliate nuclearly because the US used some nukes over talibans? Triggering their own potential annihilation?
International order is US impulsed, they decide what's legitimate and what's not.
Even in the middle ages it was like that.
When the french decided to fight against their neighbors they needed to create some excuse for that too
To be fair, I think there would be significant backlash from the general population. There was a lot of domestic pressure during the Vietnam War, because a significant minority of Americans did not support the death of U.S. soldiers for the sole sake of stopping some farmers from being Communist.
They have mountains and shit plus they have Allah on their side
>No one says it will be took lightly but do you really think that Russia, France, China, Pakistan would retaliate nuclearly because the US used some nukes over talibans?
I have absolutely no doubt about that. If America launched a nuke on Afghanistan, all countries in the world would recognise that America is a warmonger country that is willing to genocide millions for no reason apart from mindless cruelty. Any sane country would at least start a embargo against the fatties
The country eats, breathes and lives by the guns. The longer the wars the more their corporations profit. They want eternal wars around the world just like Big Boss' goal in MGS, except their purpose is only greed
why does everyone gloss over the fact that the US took control of afghanistan and iraq's government in like a week. the formal war was mindboggling easy, america just sucks at babysitting third worlders. first worlders like japan didn't bite the hand that fed them and they turned into the third biggest economy in the world
>International order is US impulsed, they decide what's legitimate and what's not.
This was true during the 90s and maybe early 00s, but now America is on a free fall. They no longer have the same influence as they used to.
Even their economy is not impressive anymore, China already surpassed them
>first worlders like japan didn't bite the hand that fed them and they turned into the third biggest economy in the world
Different situation. America was not the only superpower when Japan started to get rich, which meant that you couldn't pull a Afghanistan on them without the soviets beating you
Because we are sending people who are trained as soldiers to become what is essentially police officers, because ANP and ANA are lazy pieces of shit who are half the times on taliban payroll. In conventional warfare the US can steamroll: korea, iraq, germany but in a prolonged war where the enemy is able to blend into the local population and basically 'bleed' the us forces killing one every now and then and lower morale they begin to succeed: vietnam, afghanistan. the closest we got probably was jim gant but the government took him out because thats not what they actually wanted
The Vietnam War was a conventional war. You even had a draft
>steamroll: korea
it was asymmetrical warfare dont even kid yourself. if there was a draft for the war in afghanistan right now against the taliban, they wouldnt suddenly become a conventional fighting force
>The Vietnam War was a conventional war. You even had a draft
Not him but we couldn't invade North Vietnam without pissing off China. We probably should had though.
>not allowed to invade the north
Then what do you guys consider a conventional war? A white room scenario?