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Tactically Optimal != Diplomatically Optimal The US Army gave the equipment to the Afghanistan National Army and the Afghanistan National Army walked away from

Tactically Optimal != Diplomatically Optimal The US Army gave the equipment to the Afghanistan National Army and the Afghanistan National Army walked away from it. The alternative would have been for the US Army to take the equipment with it or destroy the equipment, which would have been met with a media narrative ranging from "US abandons ANA" to "US steals from ANA" or even "US destroys ANA."

tablespoon 5y ago
> The alternative would have been for the US Army to ... destroy the equipment, which would have been met with a media narrative ranging from "US abandons ANA" to "US steals from ANA" or even "US destroys ANA." But that's basically what happened. They left the helicopters but took the maintenance contractors, which rendered the helicopters useless (IIRC military aircraft need a huge amount of regular maintenance to be flyable).