It is important to understand the difference between 'strategic bombing', 'tactical bombing' and 'precision strikes'.
Strategic bombing is conducted to devastate entire landscapes and/or eliminate entire population bases.
Tactical bombing is conducted to soften enemy positions and make it possible for troops on the ground to clear enemy from the battlespace. This is preferred method for Air-Land operations.
Precision strikes are conducted to assassinate individuals, destroy equipment, level a structure, or to create pressure on a group for political ends. This is also preferred method for COIN operations.
A country can be subjected to 'precision strikes' on a regular basis but this method is not suitable to win a war.
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USA subjected Afghan Taliban to 'tactical bombing' back in 2001 when Bush administration wanted to topple Afghan Taliban-led government and dismantle Al-Qaeda Network in Tora Bora mountains.
This report describes the preparations for Operation Enduring Freedom, Army operations and support activities, coalition issues, and civil-military operations in Afghanistan from October 2001 through June 2002.
www.rand.org
Tommy Franks was the chief architect of the aforementioned military operation and Afghanistan became peaceful for several years.
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Afghan Taliban began to regroup in 2004 and resurged in 2014. Pakistan and Qatar were able to reduce hostilities between USA and the Afghan Taliban however. Pakistan and Qatar brought USA and Afghan Taliban to the negotiating table and the latter two have a deal now.
Afghan Taliban negotiated its way to victory with support of Pakistan and Qatar in other words. There is no guarantee that Afghan Taliban will be able to take over entire Afghanistan by force however - political solution might be the only way forward for all stakeholders in Afghanistan.
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Afghan Taliban are not equipped to challenge and/or withstand USA in open battles. USA have sufficient firepower to turn 'any' country into a wasteland with strategic bombing'. This method will cause unprecedented number of deaths in the region however. Donald Trump pointed out as much to Imran Khan in a meeting.
President Trump said Monday he could win the war in Afghanistan but doesn't want to "kill 10 million people."
abcnews.go.com
Therefore.
No one with a functioning and balanced intellect would ever argue the case that america is incapable of destroying Afghanistan. That was never in dispute, since history has testified to the destruction america is capable of, i.e Hiroshima and Nagasaki. However, it is america who defined Al-Qaeda as the enemy and the latter was hosted by Taliban. As such, america went on to define Taliban as the enemy, as well. Since the rest of Afghanistan and its population was not the enemy, america had a clear target. And here is where the problems began for the supposed "
Sole Superpower" on the planet.
The Afghan Mujahideen (Taliban), used asymmetric warfare to counter the overwhelming military power of the americans and their NATO allies. In order to destroy your target, you must locate them first. Otherwise you are just shooting blanks in the air. And america has been in Afghanistan for the last 20 years, shooting blanks. Reason? Well unlike Iraq, Libya and Syria, the Afghan Mujahideen do not have a structured military layout.
There are no large military bases, there is no communication relay stations, there are no munitions depots, there is no supply-chain logistics, there is no command and control center of operations.
In other words, Afghanistan and it's fighting force, which is the Afghan Mujahideen, are invisible. For the better part of the 20 year occupation of Afghanistan, or as the americans refer to their government's war campaign there as, the "
Forever Wars". The americans were essentially lobbing bombs on mud-huts, the balance of warfare is calculable. For instance, the initial american air-strikes into Afghanistan were by launching Tomahawk Cruise Missiles.
Each Tomahawk Cruise Missile costs $800,00 plus and they had launched hundreds of them. And then there are the bombs,
a single JDAM (Joint Direct Attack Munition) costs $40,000 plus and they had launched thousands of them.
Essentially, americans were burning through hundreds of millions of dollars, which later translated into
$2.26 trillion over the last two decades ...... on mud-huts!!! Americans were bleeding money in their "
Bogus War on Terror".
Oh and that caca-mee-mee about america can finish Afghanistan in hours, is nothing but a load of hor$esh!t .... Why? .... Well in the even that america does decide to do such a thing, there would be dire consequences that await america. In fact, this is precisely what america has been avoiding to do, over the last 20 years. The use of overwhelming force upon a country that doesn't even have roads. Would provoke the "
unthinkable" for america. That unthinkable is the region around Afghanistan, coming together under unity and coordination, to retaliate against the Western occupying forces in the region.
For starters, China and Russia would respond and they will provide "draining military assistance" to the Afghan Mujahideen, against the american and NATO forces. But that isn't the thing that the americans fear the most .... what would send shivers down the collective West's spines, is an alliance forged between a Shia Iran and a Sunni Pakistan, to work together to hit america in Afghanistan where it hurts the most. A rapprochement between the Shia and Sunni sects in Pakistan and Iran, would have devastating consequences for the West and their Zionist Masters.
A Shia/Sunni rapprochement would usher the collapse of the Najdi-Wahhabi ring of regimes throughout the Middle East. The so-called "
Arab Spring" would look like a walk in the park to the sheer brute force rebellion by those who witnessed a Shia-Sunni rapprochement to fight the Western Hegemon in Afghanistan. Since the last 100 years, the West has been basking the sun because the Muslim World has been divided and be led by traitors and scum who exploit and manipulate the Shia-Sunni divide. The entire Western apparatus in the Middle East, exists on this single problem the Muslim Ummah has been plagued by for centuries.
So I call this american overwhelming military power, a
DUD! The american military may have the claws and the fangs to tear through the strongest of powers in the world, but those fangs and claws become brittle the moment they are confronted by a Muslim World which is united and has established firm Imaan.
It is time for the Muslims of Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan to
THINK!!!
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