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Four U.S. Intelligence Agencies Produced Extensive Reports on Afghanistan, but All Failed to Predict Kabul’s Rapid Collapse. Summaries of intelligence reports show how agencies diverged over the strength of the Afghan government and military.
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It all comes down to one simple fact. Since we entered into Afghanistan and provided the allied factions (eventually the ANA) air power, they have trained, fought, and depended on our air assets. The AAF was not ready to conduct full up combat operations and when we pulled out, we left the ANA without a critical capability. Even our own Army would be hard pressed if they were suddenly told to fight, against an experienced army that never had it, without air power of any kind.
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