Reuters: Taliban hold military parade with U.S.-made weapons in Kabul in show of strength
KABUL (Reuters) - Taliban forces held a military parade in Kabul on Sunday using captured American-made armoured vehicles and Russian helicopters in a display that showed their ongoing transformation from an insurgent force to a regular standing army.
The Taliban operated as insurgent fighters for two decades but have used the large stock of weapons and equipment left behind when the former Western-backed government collapsed in August to overhaul their forces.
The parade was linked to the graduation of 250 freshly trained soldiers, defence ministry spokesman Enayatullah Khwarazmi said.
The exercise involved dozens of U.S.-made M117 armoured security vehicles driving slowly up and down a major Kabul road with MI-17 helicopters patrolling overhead. Many soldiers carried American made-M4 assault rifles.
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Update: Taliban holds military parade in Kabul, their second since victory (Khaama Press)
WNU Editor: The streets are mainly empty. This was all done for the cameras.
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Taliban should parade every day and use up the service life.
If that's the last resource Taliban's have, it's close to the end.
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With their drug money what will the Taliban buy? Food, Electricity from Iran? Spare Parts?
For a surplus people need to work and for that you need to give them something. Once they have something they start to measure rewards to work ratio, which is hard to get right. If it is not obtained, the system grinds to halt. Afghanistan is going to grind to a halt sooner rather than later (when viewed on the timescale of polities).
TBF lots of other places (all) do not get it right either. Look at America and the jackasses in power now.
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