Comments by "Arthur Mosel" (@arthurmosel808) on "Ed Nash's Military Matters" channel.

Seem to have forgotten things left behind by the US forces. If this was the Afghan air force, it was too small to be meaningful.
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@dalewebster1709 Besides not following former President Trkump's plan, President Biden chose to ignore Trump's conditions on the Taliban. This is very similar to the Democrats ignoring the terms of the 1973 Psris Accords and our separate support agreements with the South. On the North's violations, I was assigned to the unit monitoring it and remember the briefing on the mission's importance and that DC was being made aware of the results. Democrats seem to forget obligations rather easily.
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@ostiariusalpha Go back awhile there was reporting about abandoned equipment and the intact bases that we left. Nice to have a short memory. Not in US possession doesn't mean it had been in Afghan government possession. Some of those bases were in Taliban controlled areas.
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@cedriceric9730 Sorry, he did set a date, but he also placed conditions on our departure. The Taliban was told what would happen. President Biden ignored those conditions, much the way the Democrats ignored NVA violation of the 1973 Accords and our written agreements for support of South Vietnam if they were attacked. 1975 followed that.
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A better choice for saying it is a WWI A-10 was the Junkers aircraft designed as a ground attack aircraft that was armored against sma,l arms. Officially the JI (also have seen J4 used, possibly one was official and the other a company designation). The nickname was the "furniture van".
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@ian_b Only if the Dems, who don't seem to mind killing US citizens by neglect and bad decisions, run things. Check COVID nursing home deaths, current COVID surge mainly fueled by a COVID variant mainly found in South and Latin American and a lack of testing or vaccination before spreading b the illegals across America, and leaving stranded in Afghanistan an unknown number of US citizens, 5000 to 10000 in the Kabul area alone. Yes, the Dems seem to lack either caring for our own people or lack the intelligence to figure out the result of their actions.
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@cedriceric9730 Sorry, because you accept that, it doesn't make it true. Hide the Biden Administration's errors all you want, read what other countries are saying. This Administration by commission or omission has betrayed our nation multiple times, aiding Russia with the pipeline, Iran by relieving sanctions, opening the border to un-COVID tested/unvaccinatrec illegals who were scattered across the nation (many coming from where COVID 19 Delta was prevalent, opening the border to increased drug trafficking and limiting US energy independence by closing areas to research and development and stopping the. Keystone Pipe line (an act that also angered Canada who is now suing the Government to recover losses, and the eviction moratorium knowly committing an action found unconstitutional by the Supreme Court counting on the action running out before the case can heard. If Trump was a dictator to you Biden and his Administration are playing emperor; however one like Hans Christensen Anderson's emperor who bought non-existent clothes.
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@keevee09 Where do I say we won? Nice try at putting words in my mouth ot post. My own belief after initially helping the Northern Alliance to win, we should not have made any attempt to create a modern secular state. Rather keep a few advisors and nudge minor modernization to increase over time. The Brits helped in two Afghan Civil wars during the 1800's. Both times the side they backed won. Both times they kept their troops in, and sent in political officers to modify the state. Both times the result was everyone including the people that they helped Joined forces to chase them out. When you don't study the past or the people/culture you just repeat mistakes. The liberal/left demanded Afghanistan become a modern secular society, so failure was almost certain.
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@keevee09 To an extent you are right; however, the US is split apart because external players and their ideological allies have been allowed to create the conditions. We need to stop meditating on our imperfections and realize what forces/players profit from our distraction. By the way, historically, except ign Latin America
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I should have added, the original spec came out in 1916. Possibly as many as 50 saw service during the war.
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The F-35 was originally designed as a low cost supplement to the air superiority F-22; an accurate comparison was the F-16 fighter bomber to the F-15. When the F-22 purchase was reduced, the F-35 had to improve its air superiority ability; hence a redesign which included a new engine. Added to this, the same plane had to provide carrier capability for the Navy and VSTOL/STOL capability for the Marines. The end result was a plane that only has somewhere between 40 and 60 % compatibility between models and truth be told probably could be given their own unique designations; putting to bed once again the idea that one design can do everything. The F-111 was the last try at that dream. It was meant to be an air superiority fighter, ground support fighter, carrier fighter, and bomber. It was too large and unmaneuverable for air superiority, too big for carriers, to fragile for close air support. It finally found a role as a good bomber. As a result the F-4 was forced into roles that it wasn't originally designed to do. If you want to see a historical example of this mania look at some of the French aircraft developed in the 30's that ended up as night bombers in 1939/1940 because they could do none of there intended roles in daylight. While the F-35 can do its jobs, it is still an effort to adapt something designed for a specific role into a single aircraft that can do everything; but in reality if honestly looked at isn't a single design at all. By the way, remember the cost of an aircraft's development go into its price tag. Redesign adds cost, major differences in the aircraft add cost since each type has different parts, and finally the production costs are folded into the number purchased, meaning that production cost is static and its amount included in the price depends on how many are purchased. Buy 1,000 of something and the development costs are divided by 1,000 and that one thousandth is added to the actual cost to produced; reduce that purchase to 100, and the same development cost is added to the production cost, but only q0 times as much as if you bought thousand. Slow purchase and production of several years, and now the cost of materials and labor goes up, a nd companies add in for that as well. How many bad decisions go into making something being the most expensive ever?
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@RGC-gn2nm I can't say yes or no, I don't have that data; and I doubt you have either. I do know prior reporting was taking about abandoned equipment and undestroyed bases occupied by Taliban. I guess you missed that.
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@cedriceric9730 Cedric reread your own comment, first there was no commitment to a specific Afghan government i agree; however, there was a condition that they not take further territory; which they did. No law set the US. departure date, where did you get that one? If there had been on President Biden broke that one on his own. Last, read your last sentence, you said it was ok as long as the Taliban broke the conditions. Sound like you been taking lessons from our President who had nearly a 75% disapproval ratings on his speech and three Pinocchioes on his comments about the Afghan Army.
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Historically, except in Latin America, the US policy was talk softly and carry a big stick. The Progressives who moved us into WWI forgot this. Similarly, Progressives helped get us into WWII, their inaction setup the fall/breakup of French Indochina (which was good and bad; bad mainly because instead of done by the French themselves not through communist expansion), aided in the creation of the PRC by preventing effective aid to the Nationalists, I can go on; however, there are too many bureaucrats identified in declassified intelligence reports too mention all the bad decisions that they were involved in post WWII.
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@keevee09 In some aspects again we agree and others we don't. As to corrupt politicians, labor leaders and business men (there always more than enough in each category) more interested in gaining power, influence, or personal gain who can be played against their own long term interests for short term gains or foolish enough to believe they will somehow be exempt from what they cause. A few people worker together exploiting different factions or ideologies can accomplish goals that none of these were working to achieve. So, I still feel external actors and those committed to those external actor's ideology are the major factor; as they have been many times and places in history. Quisling in Norway would be an example, or those who helped the pro-Moscow faction in Roumania after WW2.
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•F_bash In competence or disloyalty or an admixture using an easily mislead man as its face, who knows for sure. What do know was former President Trump was impeached for far less.
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@DrScopey2 You better check your dates. Bagram didn't close in 2014. Video of US equipment left behind was shown as recently as the last couple of weeks.
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@captivatethem Not anti-imperial, but more like ostrich joke; but not head in sand but head firmly up where the sun doesn't shine. He is enabling a Maoist strategy gy on the part of the PRC. Remember Mao cut the cities from the countryside and interdiction the roads to bring about the Nationalist fall.. in global terms this means cutting the non-communist industrialized nations from resources; either by purchase or conflict. This while in the US, he tries to consolidate more power in Wahington and a single political party.
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The high mounted engines allowed it to be used from less developed airstrips without over concern of FOD; while the lower mounted engines required a more developed runway to avoid the issue. Additionally being widely separated with little crossconnection (as far as I remember) meant a single hit wouldn't leave the plane as vulnerable to being shot out of the sky by a single hit on a shared fuel and engine system. In other words the A-10 was designed as only for a specialist role, attacking Frontline ground targets, while the other was a more general fighter bomber. Why the Air Force fighter mafia hated it when force reductions dropped the number of aircraft available and they had to keep some around while reducing fighter and high speed fighter bombers that were still capable of air to air combat. Remember, the fighter mafia had taken over from the strategic bomber mafia due to the nature of the Vietnam War and movement away from nuclear weapons use.. Remember the repurposing of the B-52 for the ARC LIGHT conventional bombing; an experiment that was tried in the early 50's with the B-36 which actually carried more bombs; but jets were the thing and big propeller driven were out (SAC was only about nuts then.
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