An Afghanistan Battalion Gets Annihilated By The Taliban In A Failed Operation

A 2007 video promoting the Afghan Army

Showcase Afghan Army Mission Turns To Debacle -- New York Times

KABUL, Afghanistan — An ambitious military operation that Afghan officials had expected to be a sign of their growing military capacity instead turned into an embarrassment, with Taliban fighters battering an Afghan battalion in a remote eastern area until NATO sent in French and American rescue teams.

The fighting has continued so intensely for the past week that the Red Cross has been unable to reach the battlefield to remove the dead and wounded.

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My Comment: I cannot say that I am surprised. The Soviets did the same thing in the 1980s, training tens of thousands of Afghan soldiers to counter what was at that time the Mujaheddin .... but when put into pitch battles the Afghan military always disintegrated unless Soviet military support rushed in.

25 years later .... we are repeating history.