Six US fighter jets destroyed in Prince Harry base attack

[DroneMailini]

Where are the drones?

What the hell these people are doing?

Why they could not stop the insurgents?

There are any soldiers in the observation posts?

How could the insurgents infiltrate into a important base? where there are numerous air assets?

 

[Oldman1]

Reminds me of rambo 3 when he single handedly destroys the russian base.

Hollywood. Even Navy SEALs send more than one to attack a base and completely destroy it.

 

[Oldman1]

Then be prepared for the counter-reply.

Then be prepared for more replies.

 

[Shameel]

They killed 18 and captured 1 and they manage to get in because they were in enemy uniform. Only way they can do that. Past attempts to overwhelm an occupied American base has failed. Never happened before since the war started and won't happen at all.

Taliban don't intend to overwhelm any American base. They are pursuing the "death by a thousand cuts" strategy and they have an endless supply of martyrs and all the time. US neither has any supply of martyrs and it has only 2 years left to make its defeat in Afghanistan look like some sort of victory for American voters back home (rest of the world already knows its a defeat).

 

[Oldman1]

Where are the drones?

What the hell these people are doing?

Why they could not stop the insurgents?

There are any soldiers in the observation posts?

How could the insurgents infiltrate into a important base? where there are numerous air assets?

You don't read do you?

 

[Shameel]

Then be prepared for more replies.

Bring em on!

 

[Oldman1]

Taliban don't intend to overwhelm any American base. They are pursuing the "death by a thousand cuts" strategy and they have an endless supply of martyrs and all the time. US neither has any supply of martyrs and it has only 2 years left to make its defeat in Afghanistan look like some sort of victory for American voters back home (rest of the world already knows its a defeat).

Umm no they have tried to overwhelm a base to try to show they achieve a victory. Its not a defeat if the Taliban can't take back the country. Kind of like in Iraq when the terrorists are trying to take control of the country when U.S. left. They are still fighting against the Iraqi govt. and military.

 

[Oldman1]

Bring em on!

Done many times in the past.

 

[Fekay]

They are the ones who led the invasion with a few hundred and push the Taliban out to Pakistan losing Afghanistan in the process in a matter of weeks.

From the tally above: If results are accurate, then it's a significant blow.
Driving from that point; the matter IS and seemingly, back and forth. BUT,
if they've managed to strategize such attacks from just insurgancy point of view;
tackling such problems will prove resourceful. point.

 

[DroneMailini]

BBC News - Prince Harry at Camp Bastion during Taliban attack Prince harry was in the base at the time of attack, Time to move prince harry out of Afghanistan, Prince harry presence creates needless burden of the forces guarding the base, United Kingdom has to seriously think about it

 

[DroneMailini]

You don't read do you?

Wearing military uniforms and infiltrating into a base, this is some thing not acceptable for a military like British forces. Dont they have any ID cards?

 

[DroneMailini]

I think recently one of our members posted a article from new york times? What will be the red line for the US Special operations inside Pakistan Tribal Areas?

http://www.defence.pk/forums/pakistans-war/200121-us-options-against-haqqani-network-pakistan.html


I believe that the red line which US could tolerate has been crossed in Today's camp bastion attack, We must also under stand that this is a British base, I don't know how US will react?

 

[Thorn]

Well trained, well equipped and in uniform. Only one power can make this possible. Pakistan!!! No way can the Taliban do this. Has to be Pakistani trained.

speaking of well trained,well equiped and in uniform.........oh wait wait i know the answer to this one,US soldiers

 

[Oldman1]

Wearing military uniforms and infiltrating into a base, this is some thing not acceptable for a military like British forces. Dont they have any ID cards?

They don't do that to their own personnel coming in. Unless they are civilians.

 

[Shameel]

Puts the significance of the Taliban attack in context:

I've been inside Camp Bastion - and it seemed like the safest place on earth - Telegraph