I have no experience in military matters or logistics. I am not saying what I think should have been done; I am just asking questions to be better informed, and to better understand the situation.
If you are going to pull out of Afghanistan, would you not get all the American support personnel out first, and then the Afghani translators and other friendlies, and only then withdraw the troops last? As an uneducated observer, it seems like pulling the troops out first sets up a situation where you have to send them back in to protect the other two groups, and then pull them out again. Am I missing something?
I just heard on the news (for what little that might be worth) that the .gov has evacuated 2,000 Afghanis, but that they had intended to evacuate 10,000, but that looks impossible now. If you were a logistical planner, planning on evacuating 10,000 people, would you not have calculated how many airplanes and runways and buses and support personnel that would take, and have a timetable for how long that would take?
If your logistics people figured out how to get all that equipment to Afhanistan, could they not also figure out how to get it out of Afghanistan? Of if the cost of relocation was more than the cost of replacement, would you not have a Plan B to destroy that materiel if Plan A (the Afghan army will use it) did not work out?
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