Washington (CNN)The US intelligence community is carrying out a sweeping internal review of how it assesses the fighting power of foreign militaries amid mounting pressure from key lawmakers on Capitol Hill who say officials have failed twice in one year on the two major foreign policy crises faced by the Biden administration in Ukraine and Afghanistan.
They were probably running deep cover investigation of parents who dare to challenge school boards and anybody in Social Media who posed “Let’s Go Brandon” because they are probably White Supremacists, the biggest threat this nation has ever faced. (end sarcasm)
or sending 15 agents to investigate a door pull.
The key to evaluating any Army is to accurately assess their leadership, training, morale and motivation. You just cannot count the warm bodies, the tanks and artillery, or the number of fighters and bombers.
Remember the Arab-Israeli Wars? Particularly 1967?
“Everybody in Washington” assumed the Afghan National Army was tough and well trained. Was it because our political leaders (in uniform and out) ignored, papered over, and whitewashed the truth? How many US trainers did the ANA frag and attempt to frag in the last decade? Did anyone really believe they would fight for a corrupt central government once the US bugged out? Especially when they saw in May, June, and July how INCOMPETENTLY THE US BUGGED OUT?
Did Vladimir Putin hear the same Bullshit about his mighty Russian Army? Did the same liars in Russia tell Putin the Ukrainians were going to turn tail and run as their leaders desperately fled to Poland with their loot?
Three Days to Kiev! Sounds a lot like “We will be Hailed as Liberators!” back in 2003, doesn’t it? And just as false. Just as deluded. Just as much Washington DC and mass media truth.