When US operators don't have a huge air superiority advantage, they usually just fold lmao.

https://twitter.com/TelegraphWorld/status/1455637159453601797

  • SorosFootSoldier [he/him, they/them]
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    3 years ago

    Our special operations detachments are just glorified assassins. They been rocked before in stand up fights, like Operation Red Wings, where seals kicked the hornets nest in Afghanistan and got got by the local militias.

    • emizeko [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      whom amongst us wouldn't want to learn more?

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Red_Wings

      • SacredExcrement [any, comrade/them]
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        3 years ago

        US Strength: 12 Seals, 8 pilots, additional helo crew, 2 Apache Gunships, 2 Blackhawks, 2 Chinooks

        Taliban strength: 8-10, or 70-100 (lmao wut)

        Result: Insurgent Strategic victory

        US casualties: 19 dead, 1 helo shot down

        Taliban casualties: Unknown, highest estimate 35

        Ok. Taking that on its face, how you gonna have two fucking gunships and a dozen SEALs, but ONLY maybe get around 35 and get everyone on the ground owned?

        • mecha_john_brown [comrade/them,any]
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          3 years ago

          "military journalist Ed Darack cites a military intelligence report stating the strength of the Taliban force to be 8–10"

          rekt

          • invalidusernamelol [he/him]M
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            3 years ago

            No amount of technology will ever be able to beat homefield advantage and anti-imperialist spirit.

    • LoudMuffin [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      I feel like the local militias actually have to know how to fight vs the US where the moment they start losing they just wait for an airstrike

        • The_Jewish_Cuban [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          It's so thinly veiled Martyrdom propaganda that is almost laughable that people fall for it.