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151 | Ret. General Dan Bolger: Why We Lost in Afghanistan and Iraq

The Realignment

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Afghanistan - The Battle of the Taliban

We're the afghans are, they're good fighters individually, and theyare. They're all about sort of bush wacking and stuff, but standing up to air strikes or standing up to form troopst not their thing. And so what happened? Whas the talivan began to put their finger in the air, they realize, ha, these americans got the planes. Are going to win. And people just switch sides. There was only a little fighting, just as there was in this most recent talivan offensive. Only a little actual shooting. Mostly was people just saying, hey, i want to get on the winning side of this, or get the heck out of

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