Off Topic — HabitableZone

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Afghanistan.
Bowser — (archived)

I will read about that a bit more. I do know that the Afghanis chew up and spit out invaders. All of 'em. As they are the US and NATO now. They will spend at much time as it takes and lose all the lives it takes.

I also know that the US and NATO aren't controlling the countrysides, don't have feet on the ground except in isolated areas, leaving most of the area more or less free to the Afghanis.

(For an indication of what it's like messing with Afghani tribesmen, try researching what happened to the Russian POWs they captured. There weren't many that lived to make it to the rear, so to speak, less than 10, and the ones which didn't get there were the lucky ones.)

I also know that the Brits didn't control the countryside. There are still forts along the Khyber Pass which had to be reached in daylight or else. Ma Bowser spent three years in Afghanistan for AID in the mid-'70s, and said the situation was the same then. One did NOT want to be stuck outside a fortified area after dark.

Arf

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