{"id":107789,"date":"2020-12-01T07:30:25","date_gmt":"2020-12-01T12:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=107789"},"modified":"2020-11-30T20:47:58","modified_gmt":"2020-12-01T01:47:58","slug":"nato-worried-about-how-they-can-do-afghanistan-without-the-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=107789","title":{"rendered":"NATO worried about how they can do Afghanistan without the US"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Jeff LPH 3 sends in that the people running NATO are now voicing concerns about how they’ll be able to continue their mission supporting and training the Afghans without the ample support of the United States.<\/p>\n

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said Monday that the military alliance is grappling with a dilemma over its future in Afghanistan, as the United States starts pulling troops out while attacks by the Taliban and extremist groups mount.<\/p>\n

More than 17 years after taking the lead on international security efforts in Afghanistan, NATO now has around 11,000 troops from dozens of nations there helping to train and advise the national security forces. Most of the personnel are from Europe and other NATO partner countries.<\/p>\n

But the alliance relies heavily on the United States armed forces for air support, transport and logistics. European allies would struggle even to leave the country without U.S. help, and President Donald Trump\u2019s decision to pull almost half the U.S. troops out by mid-January leaves NATO in a bind.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, I guess if you want to stay you should put your resources into supporting it. This is just another reminder of how much the US contributes to NATO. Since the fall of the Iron Curtain, our “coalitions” have been largely American with the Brits, Canadians, and Aussies providing the most support. The rest of our allies provide a pittance of personnel so that it can be considered a multi-national effort. In my opinion, two dudes from Belgium, three from Poland, and an Italian guy in your operations center in-country really isn’t materially contributing to the mission.<\/p>\n

It’s worth noting that the 11,000 troop number seems to include<\/em>\u00a0the US. The US has always provided the lions share of personnel and equipment. Most recent troop numbers here<\/a>. There’s a reason NATO can’t even redeploy without the US.<\/p>\n

As to our 17 years of “support” to the Afghanistan government, we occupied Germany for a little over four years after WWII. The occupation of Japan only lasted until 1952. For comparison’s sake, 17 years after World War II ended, West Germany was a thriving economy that was producing gull wing Mercedes Benz cars and the iconic Porsche 356. Japan had rebuilt and was booming, making in roads into the electronics market they would later dominate and developing cheap, reliable motorcycles and compact cars. After 17 years in Afghanistan, the last article I read about the country was that they now have a thriving methamphetamine manufacturing business to compliment their traditional opiate exports. You can lead a horse to water…<\/p>\n

Source; Military Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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