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General Forums => Aces High General Discussion => Topic started by: Peanut1 on September 12, 2021, 03:57:14 PM

Title: All in the name of Defeat
Post by: Peanut1 on September 12, 2021, 03:57:14 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKO3Rp1iG2c (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKO3Rp1iG2c)

Title: Re: All in the name of Defeat
Post by: Eagler on September 13, 2021, 08:42:45 AM

You would have thought we'd known it was an impossible mission from the start...

I am all for fighting wars in these 3rd world crap holes like this regardless what the UN has to say about it..

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-53345885.amp

There is never a reason to put boots on the ground in this day and age except to turn them into 20 year unwinnable wars...

Eagler

Title: Re: All in the name of Defeat
Post by: redcatcherb412 on September 13, 2021, 07:53:17 PM

Quote from: Peanut1 on September 12, 2021, 03:57:14 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKO3Rp1iG2c (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKO3Rp1iG2c)

The frustration evident in the CC's voice trying to get the Afghan forces to actually aim and fire  at 3:10 in the video  instead of holding their weapons over their heads and blind firing into the air is pretty well the same frustrations as we had in the 60's with some of the South Vietnamese forces we patrolled with.  I guess some things never change.