Originally posted by Darth Executor
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when the enemy overruns your country and turns you into kebab, you lost.
I disagree that it was a major strategic goal, and furthermore it's not a goal of war at all. I don't see what diplomatic or political failures (which, I should note, haven't actually happened) have to do with military failures (which is what the OP was about). The author's thesis simply doesn't pass the laugh test since the US military can and does mop the floor with third world armies, both formal and informal. To make matters worse, even under your view the author's claim is frivolous as it's based on what might happen
rather than what has happened so far (the Taliban's crushing military defeat)
Of course not. They already have a friendlier government, why reinstate the Taliban?
Sorry, couldn't keep a straight face.
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