A new Pentagon report just came out that details the precise amount of military equipment we abandoned in Afghanistan during the withdrawal Biden referred to as an "extraordinary success."
According to this report, the United States left the Taliban more than $7 billion in military equipment.
Reported by CNN:
The US gave a total of $18.6 billion of equipment to the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) from 2005 to August 2021, according to the report. Of that total, equipment worth $7.12 billion remained in Afghanistan after the US withdrawal was completed on August 30, 2021. It included aircraft, air-to-ground munitions, military vehicles, weapons, communications equipment and other materials, according to the DoD report.
That's more than 1/3 of the equipment we brought to Afghanistan given on a silver platter to the very people we were trying to fight.
The scale of the Afghanistan disaster just seems to get worse and worse as time goes on.
Here are some of the big-ticket items the US left behind in Afghanistan:
Aircraft worth $923.3 million remained in Afghanistan. The US left 78 aircraft procured for the government of Afghanistan at Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul before the end of the withdrawal. These aircraft were demilitarized and rendered inoperable before the US military left, the report states. The US military conducted its non-combatant evacuation from Afghanistan in August, primarily through that airport.
A total of 9,524 air-to-ground munitions, valued at $6.54 million, remained in Afghanistan at the conclusion of the US military withdrawal. The "significant majority" of the "remaining aircraft munitions stock are non-precision munitions," the report states.
Over 40,000 of the total 96,000 military vehicles the US gave to Afghan forces remained in Afghanistan at the time of the US withdrawal, including 12,000 military Humvees, the report states. "The operational condition of the remaining vehicles" in Afghanistan is "unknown," the report states.
Aircraft, air-to-ground munitions, and tens of thousands of military vehicles were all abandoned upon withdrawal.
These are the "official" numbers from the Pentagon. This is what they want us to know. What they don't want us to know may be much worse.
More than 300,000 of the total 427,300 weapons the US gave to Afghan forces remained in Afghanistan at the time of the US military withdrawal, according to the report. Less than 1,537,000 of the "specialty munitions" and "common small arms ammunition," valued at a total of $48 million, are still in the country, the report states.
"Nearly all" of the communications equipment that the US gave to Afghan forces, including base-station, mobile, man-portable and hand-held commercial and military radio systems, and associated transmitters and encryption devices also remained in Afghanistan at the time of the withdrawal, the report states.
"Nearly all" night vision, surveillance, "biometric and positioning equipment" totaling nearly 42,000 pieces of specialized equipment remained in the country, the report adds.
And "nearly all" of the explosive ordinance disposal and demining equipment, including 17,500 "pieces of explosive detection, electronic countermeasure, disposal and personal protective equipment" also remained in Afghanistan, according to the report.
So much military equipment was simply given away to the enemy.
This doesn't even include the lives lost in and after the withdrawal, or the insane humanitarian crisis in the nation right now.
Among all of Biden's many disasters, this might be the worst.
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