Having thought about why it has been difficult to conquer in the last 150 years whilst having been piss-easy to conquer the 2200 years before that, I think the difficulty now is with mechanization. You need a low-tech army if you want to take Afghanistan with quickness and ease. No vehicles at all, including for supply chain management. No reliance on roads. Everyone walks on foot, everything gets carried by the body of the soldier. Horses and camels at the very most. And you move in great big bodies, massed numbers, 100,000 at a time, all walking down the same trail. The disadvantage of being a slow-moving, densely-packed infantry column is that you are very vulnerable to artillery fire, a single shot could wipe out thousands. So have a drone carpet bomb along the whole route of your march, about half an hour before the head of the column, to make sure there's no artillery pieces in range. Or send flex squads ahead of the column along the flanks, clearing out artillery installments before the main force reaches.
That way nothing can go wrong. That's how all the ancient and medieval armies worked, and they all smashed Afghanistan over and over again like it was candy from a baby. You do like that, you'll roll over them.
That video talked about how they set up ambushes on roads and shyt. Well obviously if you're using trucks to bring in supplies and cars to move soldiers around, you need a road, and if there's only a couple of roads then its so easy to target them. If you're on foot then you can climb even the tallest mountain if you must, find routes that are completely open with clear 360 degree line of sight, that way you can't get ambushed. If you're using mechanized transport you can't do that.
That way nothing can go wrong. That's how all the ancient and medieval armies worked, and they all smashed Afghanistan over and over again like it was candy from a baby. You do like that, you'll roll over them.
That video talked about how they set up ambushes on roads and shyt. Well obviously if you're using trucks to bring in supplies and cars to move soldiers around, you need a road, and if there's only a couple of roads then its so easy to target them. If you're on foot then you can climb even the tallest mountain if you must, find routes that are completely open with clear 360 degree line of sight, that way you can't get ambushed. If you're using mechanized transport you can't do that.
They played the long game went to Pakistan/Iran got trained and came back and whooped ass just like in the 80s
Rich off opium poppy
