Chapter 1294: Strange Stories Through the Ages
The deputy chief of staff of the army thinks that he has raised a bunch of waste, but the bigwigs of the Northern Alliance still feel aggrieved, and the American masters actually asked the government army to dispatch the troops of two motorized rifle divisions to the Golden Crescent area to assist in the fight against the Taliban guerrillas!
This order was conveyed by the command of the US forces in Afghanistan to the interim government, which immediately caused a chorus of scolding from the government and the army, and the Taliban guerrillas could not even do anything about the US army.
Whenever the government wants to rule the country, the army is indispensable, and without such a force in its hands, the national security cannot be guaranteed, and the government is facing collapse at any time.
The reason why the Northern Alliance was able to cooperate with the US government was, of course, that it also had armed forces, but at the beginning of the war, the main force was crippled by the tail of the mercenary regiment because of the robbery in Mazar-i-Sharif, and it has always been a key target of the guerrillas, and the vast majority of the tens of thousands of people in the current government army are new recruits.
Although they have advanced weapons and equipment provided by the US government and have also been trained by instructors from NATO countries, it has only been a year since the establishment of the government army.
But the ugly daughter-in-law always wants to see her in-laws, the bigwigs of the government and the army gritted their teeth, summed up a night, and finally put on a posture that the dead pig is not afraid of boiling water, or sent the troops out, nonsense, if you are not obedient, then how can you ask for military spending from the US government?
However, all the government troops who participated in this operation were each paid double salaries, and the Yankees have always liked to have brave men under heavy rewards. However, ordinary officers and soldiers do not receive so much, and half of them have to be kept in the headquarters as military expenses, which is called to reduce government expenditures.
The two motorized infantry divisions have a combined number of 24,000 men, and according to the wartime salary standard paid by the US army, each soldier of the government army can get a monthly salary of 6,000 US dollars, not counting officers, half of which is 3,000 US dollars per person, so many people are equal to more than 70 million US dollars, and this wealth cannot be let go.
The shadow organization quickly transmitted the information of the dispatch of the provisional government army to the guerrillas, and the military movement of more than 20,000 people was not a small movement, and there were more than 2,000 vehicles.
The Taliban government-in-exile guerrillas, which even the US military dared to beat, were like a tiger into a flock of sheep to the government army, and such a long period of guerrilla warfare training has cultivated an elite mountain warfare unit and special warfare unit, and the 1st Motorized Rifle Division was ambushed as soon as it arrived in southern Kandahar.
Strangely, the 1st Motorized Rifle Division was attacked, and the 2nd Motorized Rifle Division not only did not support, but turned around and ran, returning to its camp in just a few hours, and the efficiency was unprecedentedly high.
"It's really a strange story for the ages, a division with more than 12,000 troops, was beaten by a mountain regiment of more than 3,000 guerrillas, and the crying father and mother were embarrassed, and the vehicles transporting ammunition were lost along with the towed artillery behind them, and more than a third of them ran back empty-handed. The Deputy Chief of Staff of the Army was furious.
He was annoyed by a group of cheating government generals, and he scolded and blew people away, and now he finally understands the pain of the US military command in Afghanistan, and it is simply the greatest misfortune of the US army to meet such a partner.
"Your Excellency doesn't know yet, the roster is more than 12,000 people, in fact, the troops in Kandahar are only more than 9,000 people, and the rest are all impersonated, some people regard the US government as a wronged leader, and eat empty salaries, yes, according to the mercenary corps, it is called empty salaries, and the empty salaries of 3,000 people are 9 million US dollars a month, which is really good."
"Don't blame those officers and soldiers for running back empty-handed, more than half of these people don't have guns in their hands, the whole set of equipment has been sold to mercenaries and some arms dealers, what to do if they don't have guns, they have become logistics troops, 12,000 motorized infantry divisions, there are 6,000 logistics troops, this kind of strange news is the first time Your Excellency has heard of it, right?" The commander of the US forces in Afghanistan said with a sneer.
The deputy chief of staff of the US Army was suddenly killed by His Excellency the commander, and what kind of ancient anecdote did he say just now, compared with what the Afghan government army did, it was simply too small, how to fight without a gun, and if you don't run, that is an eternal anecdote, no matter how good the dollar is, it does not have such a great charm!
"It is impossible for the US government to occupy Afghanistan for a long time, and that will be condemned by the international community, which will be very bad for the image of the United States, and if it is characterized as aggression, we will be very passive in this situation, and at most we will build a few important military bases and become a bridgehead for advancing into Central and South Asia and threatening China."
"In fact, members of Congress have repeatedly and strongly criticized the government's aid, which is a waste of taxpayers' money, but now who has no better way to solve this complex and chaotic situation, can't the U.S. government spend hundreds of billions of dollars, lose the precious lives of more than 20,000 soldiers, and finally win this war, but leave Afghanistan to mercenaries to manage, right?" The deputy chief of staff of the army said helplessly.
It is difficult to ride a tiger, this is the dilemma that the US government is facing at the moment, it is impossible to give up, the war was fought in order to be in Afghanistan's unique strategic position, and the Taliban government was overthrown in one fell swoop by the fact that terrorist organizations attacked the United States, and the process cost more than 200 billion US dollars, and more than 20,000 GIs were killed, and the cost was so heavy that the US government and the military also felt unbearable pain.
Under strong pressure from the U.S. Command in Afghanistan, the Afghan Interim Government Army (AFA) was again dispatched, again with two motorized rifle divisions, this time at full strength, and four divisional combat teams formed a blockade network in the southern part of Kabul.
"These damn Yankees, it's inevitable that they are too immoral in doing things, they will be so messy in the future, do you want the face of the government, and the face of the army?" The bigwigs of the Northern Alliance couldn't help but be furious.
I don't know who came up with such a cheating idea, but all the units involved in the battle were verified by the US military logistics department for the number of personnel, machinery, and equipment, and then allocated military funds according to the actual data, so as to strictly avoid the occurrence of empty salaries.