Getting Teady To Leave Afghanistan

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The Long Roads Home
With Pakistan agreeing to restore access to its critical ground supply routes, the Pentagon still confronts a massive challenge to withdraw tens of thousands of troops, an estimated 100,000 shipping containers and 50,000 wheeled vehicles from Afghanistan over the next two years. In addition to the Pakistan routes, the U.S. military will depend on air cargo and a makeshift network of old rail lines and curvy roads that cross Central Asia and Russia. Source: National Geospatial Intelligence Agency. Gene Thorp.

Northern Land Routes To Be Crucial In U.S. Withdrawal From Afghanistan -- Washington Post

Even with the reopening of critical supply routes through Pakistan, the U.S. military confronts a mammoth logistical challenge to wind down the war in Afghanistan, where it must withdraw nearly 90,000 troops and enormous depots of military equipment accumulated over the past decade.

Assuming Pakistan doesn’t seal its border again, U.S. and NATO commanders still face the prospect of pulling out at least a third of the cargo from northern Afghanistan on a winding, makeshift network of railways and roads that cross the former Soviet Union.

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My Comment: It has been a long 10+ years of war .... and I say .... the sooner we leave .... the better that it will be for all of us.