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Originally Posted by PepsiFree
Curios how spread out the Taliban might be after basically taking the whole country in 10 days. I'm sure they have strong numbers, but you'd think if another power wanted to come in and take over, they could do it fairly easily.
Obviously harder with Russia backing the terrorists, but could be interesting going forward.
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There's a couple of really interesting books on the history of Afghanistan and how they dealt with conquerors.
The War at the top of the world stands out as a must read book (not that I'm saying you don't know and you should read up or something like that)
Its never been about the numbers there, its about understanding geography in Afghanistan. You need very few numbers if you can make the mountains your force multipliers. Conventional Armies always lose in the mountains, especially in Afghanistan.
There was a another book about how the Soviets completely changed the Spetznaz and made them elite mountain fighters and they earned a fierce reputation in terms of tracking and killing the Taliban in the mountains.
The Taliban knows if they get attacked, small numbers and mobility and the desire to make war a vendetta usually leads them to bleeding the army white.
Personally I wouldn't want to fight in Afghanistan unless I could flatten the mountains.