(20.06.2021, 22:00)Quintus Fabius schrieb: Drei Beiträge zur weiteren Entwicklung in Afghanistan, welche alle natürlich nur Einzelausschnitte sind, aber insgesamt eine wesentliche Frage anschneiden: Auch wenn wir aus Afghanistan abziehen - inwieweit sind wir bereit den Afghanischen Sicherheitskräften weiterhin die notwendigen Mittel zur Verfügung zur stellen? Den Afghanistan ist nicht in der Lage selbst die notwendigen Sicherheitsstrukturen zu finanzieren und aufrecht zu erhalten. Die Taliban werden also in jedem Fall zeitnah gewinnen, wenn wir nicht weiterhin den afghanischen Truppen Geld und Material zukommen lassen.

Und gerade in dem entscheidenden Bereich der die Taliban noch einige Zeit verzögern könnte - nämlich der Luftwaffe - bricht die Unterstützung zur Zeit in sich zusammen. Alleine am Boden aber werden die afghanischen Truppen schon bald aufgerieben werden:

https://warisboring.com/more-than-20-commandos-killed-by-taliban-during-an-ambush-in-afghanistan/

https://warisboring.com/centcom-commander-says-the-us-will-no-longer-provide-air-strikes-in-afghanistan/

Insbesondere:

https://warisboring.com/afghanistans-air-force-is-a-rare-u-s-backed-success-story-but-it-might-fail-soon/

(22.06.2021, 15:38)Quintus Fabius schrieb: Stattdessen entzieht man seit Wochen (in Teilen seit Monaten) schon den afghanischen Sicherheitskräften immer weitgehender die Unterstützung, insbesondere die Luftnahunterstützung bricht zusammen und kann von der afghanischen Luftwaffe immer weniger geleistet werden. Und die Taliban treten derweilen immer offener in Erscheinung:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/20/world/asia/afghanistan-kunduz-taliban.html

https://www.wsj.com/articles/taliban-advances-test-afghan-forces-morale-as-the-u-s-leaves-11624209389

https://tolonews.com/afghanistan-172984

https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/taliban-key-afghan-district-adding-string-wins-78400688

Zitat:MD Helicopters pick up Army contracts to support Afghan light attack helicopters

MD Helicopters, Inc. (MDHI) announces two independent contract awards worth $43.9 million from Army Contracting Command-Redstone supporting the Afghan Air Force’s MD 530F Cayuse Warrior light attack helicopters.

The first contract, a six-month extension worth $14.5 million, continues MDHI’s longstanding efforts to provide program management, and contractor logistics support (CLS) services, material, and remote operations to support the Afghan fleet. Work will take place in Mesa, Arizona; Kabul, Afghanistan; and Al-Ain, United Arab Emirates. The contract was awarded on May 28, 2021.

The second contract, worth $29.4 million, modifies MDHI’s original maintenance capabilities support contract. Under this six-month contract, MD Helicopters will provide continued maintenance, repairs, updates, and overhauls of the Afghan Air Force’s MD 530F Cayuse Warrior helicopters in Mesa, Kabul, and Al-Ain. The contract was awarded on June 10, 2021.

“While U.S. forces begin the drawdown process in Afghanistan, these contracts allow us to help Afghanistan’s Air Force maintain stability on their own through the continued support of their aircraft,” says Nick Nenadovic, Vice President, Aftermarket and Customer Support. “This further highlights the value our government and the Afghan Air Force put on the MD 530F. It is with tremendous pride we can continue providing the highest level of support for both our government and allies.”

The enhanced MD 530F Cayuse Warrior is a light armed attack helicopter respected for its power, safety, speed, agility, and unparalleled confined area capabilities. The aircraft supports a wide range of training and operational missions, providing safe, efficient multi-mission support with an increased performance profile.

Zitat:At least 21 members of Afghanistan’s special forces died fighting the Taliban last week after Afghan reinforcements failed to show up when the commandos were surrounded by the enemy and pounded by mortar fire, military and government officials said.

Most of the 170 troops who were supposed to back up the elite fighters during a battle in the northern town of Dawlat Abad stayed put out of fear that the operation had been leaked to the Taliban, an Afghan military official with knowledge of the operation said.

“The army did not come, police did not come, NDS did not come,” said the official, who asked to remain anonymous because he was not authorized to speak to the media. NDS is the acronym for the country’s intelligence agency, the National Directorate of Security.

“The other forces betrayed the commandos,” he said.

Zitat:Civilians take up arms alongside Afghan army as Taliban besiege key city with US set to exit

Civilians in Afghanistan have taken up arms to push back against the Taliban as the militants fight for control of a crucial northern city and make deeper territorial inroads with the U.S. set to withdraw all troops by September.

The insurgents are battling to take control of strategic cities in the country’s north, including its regional hub Mazar-e-Sharif, after capturing dozens of districts over the last two months. Local warlords and civilians have joined Afghan troops to push back the advance.

“Thousands of Afghan forces and armed civilians are prepared to defend the city of Mazar-e-Sharif, its outskirts and the districts that have been lost,” according to Mohammad Farhad Azimi, the governor of Balkh province, whose provincial capital is Mazar-e-Sharif. Afghan soldiers recaptured two districts in Balkh and the nearby Baghlan province during a fierce overnight battle that left 80 Taliban fighters dead.

Zitat:Islamisten in Afghanistan

Taliban kämpfen sich nach Kundus vor

Im Norden Afghanistans nehmen die Kämpfe zwischen der Regierung und den Taliban zu. Mehrere Bezirke fielen an die Islamisten. Milizen rückten bis nach Kundus und Masar-e Scharif vor - dort ist noch die Bundeswehr stationiert. [...] Am Stadtrand von Kundus haben Gefechte stattgefunden. Die Nachrichtenagentur AP filmte Soldaten der afghanischen Armee, die mit gepanzerten Fahrzeugen über leere Straßen fuhren. Die Taliban sollen sich bis auf einen Kilometer an die Provinzhauptstadt herangekämpft haben. [...]

Innerhalb nur weniger Stunden seien mindestens acht Bezirke an die Taliban gefallen. Und auch in der Nähe der Provinzhauptstadt Masar-e Scharif nahmen die Gefechte zu. Vor den Toren dort hatte gestern noch ein Taliban-Kämpfer posiert. Sein Handy-Video ging durch sämtliche soziale Netzwerke, genau wie die Fotos von mehreren Taliban-Kämpfer, die dort ihre Waffen in Siegespose hochreckten. [...]

Am Rand der Stadt Mazar-e Scharif sind nur noch wenige Soldatinnen und Soldaten der Bundeswehr stationiert. Der Abzug ist schon weit vorangeschritten, bis spätestens 4. Juli, womöglich früher, will die Bundeswehr ihren Stützpunkt und damit das Land Afghanistan verlassen haben. Das Feldlager bei Masar-e Scharif sei nicht in Gefahr, heißt es von den dortigen Behörden. Bis zum 11. September sollen die letzten ausländischen Soldatinnen und Soldaten das Land verlassen haben.

Zitat:Disaster At Hand: Documenting Afghan Military Equipment Losses Since June 2021

The United States' controversial withdrawal from Afghanistan has left it teetering at the edge of an abyss as the country is facing a nationwide Taliban resurgence. Amidst an increasingly deteriorating security situation throughout large parts of the country, fears that Taliban forces could soon overrun the entirety of Afghanistan have become all too real, possibly reverting the situation on the ground back to that before the 2001 U.S. invasion in the long term. While the withdrawal of U.S. troops and their NATO allies has been praised by some and heavily criticised by others, there is one thing seemingly everyone can agree on: the 20-year U.S.-led mission to defeat the Taliban has been an utter failure.

In the absence of U.S. and NATO forces, it remains to be seen how long the Afghan government can hold its ground against an enemy that continues to take control of ever more parts of the country, their confidence bolstered by a lack of response from the Biden administration. With direct U.S. air support, intelligence assets and logistical support soon unavailable to the Afghan military, its forces will have immense difficulty in confining Taliban forces to their current areas of control. The possible withdrawal of U.S. contractors still attached to the Afghan military can only exacerbate the situation, and would likely ground much of the Afghan Air Force within weeks after their departure.

Similar to its withdrawal from Iraq in 2011, the U.S. leaves behind a broken military apparatus that despite the investment of tens of billions of dollars is ill-prepared to face the tasks assigned to it. The immense amount of equipment provided to Afghan security forces over the past two decades is hard to overstate, numbering some 25.000 HMMWVs 'Humvees' alone. Although an impressive number in and of itself, a lack of protection against improvised explosive devices (IEDs) means that these vehicles offer little of the protective capabilities of MRAPs available to NATO forces in Afghanistan. Astonishingly, while such MRAPs were made readily available to police departments all over the U.S., Afghan security forces have to make do without them.

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A detailed list of destroyed and captured equipment of the Afghan National Army and National Police since June 2021 can be seen below. This list is constantly updated as additional footage becomes available.

The list only includes destroyed and captured vehicles and equipment of which photographic or videographic evidence is available.

(29.06.2021, 15:38)Schneemann schrieb: Also wenn man das Interview liest, sehe ich hier keine Propaganda. Die berechtigten Fragen sind durchaus kritisch und beziehen sich auch auf die Lage in den 1990ern und welche negativen Folgen die Taliban-Machtübernahme haben könnte. Dass natürlich dann die Antworten kritisch gesehen werden müssen, ja schönfärberisch von den Taliban formuliert wurden, ist sicherlich jedem klar.

Abgesehen davon hätte die Reporterin, die übrigens schon seit Jahrzehnten aus dem Nahen Osten berichtet, und das nicht nur aus Afghanistan, sehr wahrscheinlich kein Interview bekommen, hätte sie kein Kopftuch angelegt/übergehangen. Ob man deswegen auf ein Interview hätte verzichten sollen, darüber kann man wohl diskutieren. Hier aber von "vorauseilender Unterwerfung" zu reden, entbehrt jeder Grundlage - genau wie der Versuch, diesen Vorwurf mit den Beitragszahlungen zu verquicken - und zeigt eher fehlendes Wissen, wie international Interviews vorab geplant werden, zumal im nahöstlichen Raum.

Schneemann.