You’re dealing, in the case of the Taliban, with a people that were devoutly religious, and living in extreme conditions of hardship, poverty and depravation well before the Soviets rolled into that country. Their lives alone, made them capable of out stubborning western militaries.
Americans by and large aren’t used to such marginal modes of living… we’re not, at all.
Guerilla warfare won’t have any lasting power.
Americans want their comforts, their internets, their cell phones… We are a bourgeois country and that won’t change until we go into another Great Depression… now THAT could set the revolutionary foxes into the social henhouse - but it needs to come from disastrous policies made by the people at the top, so they bear all the blame.
That will get political winds blowing in a different direction.
The US Military couldn’t beat the Taliban. Russia couldn’t beat the Taliban either. The biggest weapons do not always matter. Guerilla warfare works.
You’re dealing, in the case of the Taliban, with a people that were devoutly religious, and living in extreme conditions of hardship, poverty and depravation well before the Soviets rolled into that country. Their lives alone, made them capable of out stubborning western militaries.
Americans by and large aren’t used to such marginal modes of living… we’re not, at all.
Guerilla warfare won’t have any lasting power.
Americans want their comforts, their internets, their cell phones… We are a bourgeois country and that won’t change until we go into another Great Depression… now THAT could set the revolutionary foxes into the social henhouse - but it needs to come from disastrous policies made by the people at the top, so they bear all the blame.
That will get political winds blowing in a different direction.