British media summarized Afghanistan lessons: Sun Tzu once said ...

"‘ Knowing Knowing and Knowing the others ’grandson in ancient China, but NATO did not do it."

For nearly a year from Afghanistan's withdrawal from Afghanistan, Western media still worried about the war. The British "Sunday Times" published a long article on the 14th, trying to find out all kinds of lessons for the failure of the Afghan war. The article revealed that when the United States announced his withdrawal, Britain had discussed whether it would stay with other allies. As for why in Astroma failed, the article believes that the West lacks continuous political strategies in Afghanistan, lacks understanding of local politics and people's livelihood, and lacks correct evaluation of the strength and development of Taliban in Afghanistan. farce.

"Sunday Times" article

"One year has passed, what does it make things so bad?" The article issued torture at the beginning. "After taking over Afghanistan for a year, it is difficult for people to accept such a fact -for 20 years, the international community has paid for the reshaping Afghanistan to reshape Afghanistan. The cost of $ trillion has led to tens of thousands of Westerners and Afghanians to be killed, but in the end, Taliban regained power. "

The article states that Britain is the second largest soldiers after the United States. The war spent more than 40 billion pounds, resulting in 453 soldiers killed, and thousands of people left their physical and emotional trauma -some of them even committed suicide.

"Why does the United Kingdom come to such a bad point ... Has Britain tried to influence its closest ally, the United States, and let it re -consider this devastating withdrawal operation?"

The article revealed that in April 2021, when Biden announced that the United States would miss the last period of the U.S. forces on May 1st, the British Defense Professional convened NATO allies such as Italy and Germany to discuss whether to leave the army in Afghanistan to form a formation to form a formation An Allied forces without the United States, but the result was gone.

A senior official of the British Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that the reality is cruel. Afghanistan's military operations are led by the United States, not only in the army, but also the same in assistance. Once you lose the United States, these are unsustainable.

The article describes that for Western countries, this war has become a war that everyone wants to forget.

"If you can wipe the word Afghanistan from the dictionary, the White House will definitely do this." Saad Mohseni, the main business channel of Afghanistan, said.

As for why NATO defeats, the Sunday Times wrote, the phrase "Know your enable" was derived from the "Sun Tzu's Art of War" by the grandson of ancient Chinese military masters. They often blame the local tribal conflict on Taliban. For Taliban leader Mullah Omar, NATO has only a blurred photo, and even after two years after his death, he thought he was still alive. "

Kabul Airport withdrew, and a large number of Afghan people followed the US aircraft to try to withdraw, which eventually led to a tragedy of several people falling from the aircraft (video map)

In most Afghan people, the corruption of government agencies is the main problem in their lives, but the NATO troops fight for government agencies to support corruption.

NATO former deputy commander of NATO and former British Defense Staff Nick Carter, who had performed many tasks in Afghanistan, believes that "in fact, (NATO) has never had any coherent political strategies, and never understood the local Afghanistan's local area of ​​Afghanistan Politics, and how these political factors affect the rebellion. In fact, many reasons for the rebellion have never been resolved, including excessive corruption, poor management, and no establishment of police forces that can protect the people. "

From the beginning, NATO did not know what purpose wanted to achieve in Afghanistan. For example, the British sent troops to Hermand in Afghanistan in 2006. It was originally the purpose of a rebuilding project. But when the unit was withdrawn in eight years, they had fired 46 million bullets.

The article said that year after year, the new NATO commanders will come to Afghanistan, and everyone has planted trees outside Kabul's headquarters. In the end, the number of these trees is embarrassing. Everyone strives to perform as if it is a new war and describes it as "a critical year."

The underestimation of Taliban's strength is also an important factor in the Western army caught off guard.

The article quoted senior sources of the British government as saying that the government was optimistic about the situation in Afghanistan at that time, because the British military and national security departments spent so many years on the Afghanistan issue. The Afghan army's ability to curb Taliban. Finally, the severity of the situation was underestimated.

At that time, the judgment basis of Tangning Street was:

First, although the strength of the Afghan army will slowly decline, the process of taking over the Taliban is slow, and the rebels are unlikely to "rush directly to Kabul."

Second, they believe that the Afghan army is highly enthusiastic, full of resources, and well -trained.

The final result obviously proves that they are wrong.

"In Kabul, the Afghan government did not formulate any B plans." The article also mentioned such a scene: In March 2021, Fasal Cosar, commander of the Afghan Special Forces trained by the British army in March 2021Siege on three sides, they wanted to help them support the Western army, and later realized that they could only rely on themselves."I call on the air strike support, but they did not come ... I asked why they did not launch an air strike, they said a word -the United States." Caser said that although he asked Western allies to use laser guidance bomb support, heAmericans are no longer intending to do so.

"Once the U.S. contractor is evacuated, no one maintains and operates Afghanistan equipment." Nick Carter said, "The problem is that no one thinks (after withdrawal) what will happen next.It's better to really understand how fragile the government is under Gani's leadership. "

Source: Observer.com Liu Chenghui

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