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NATO’s war planners call it the “iron mountain,” the $2.7 billion mass of military equipment that will be dropped on Afghanistan over the next eight months. But will the mountain be tall enough?
Between now and next March, the U.S.-led coalition will deliver 22,000 vehicles, including 514 new four-wheeled “mobile strike force” armored vehicles yet to be used in Afghanistan, 44 airplanes and helicopters, 40,000 weapons, and tens of thousands of radios and other pieces of communications gear. “It’s an enormous amount of equipment, vehicles and weapons,” said one U.S. military official.
You are aware that for years we were selling them crappy war material? Now, what is changing? Well, the suppliers are being changed around. But the weapons will still remain crappy and costly to the payer, the US GOVERNMENT
Giving it to them saves us money. The equipment is probably already in theatre, and we certainly won't be needing it again. We already have full motorpools of equipment that we can't take into combat anyway. About the only thing we can do with it is sell it....and i doubt that it would have many potential buyers.
514 new four-wheeled “mobile strike force” armored vehicles yet to be used in Afghanistan
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Ashraf Ghani, a top Karzai adviser, said recently that “in the next eight months, we are getting more equipment than we’ve gotten in the last eight years….and this time it’s not all discarded equipment, it’s brand new.”
Guess again.
By the way,this is aid correct?
In other words,it is only costing the American people money....
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