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--- turning_points_in_america_s_afghan_war [2022/11/23 12:28] – kc
+++ turning_points_in_america_s_afghan_war [2023/03/26 15:16] (current) – removed one false statement kc
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 The general rule is that the ratio of one's troops to the troops in an insurgency should be three to one. Therefore, for Biden to have overcome the Taliban after he came to office, he would need to have ramped up US presence in Afghanistan to something around 180,000 troops. However, at the peak of the Obama surge the US had more than 100,000 troops on the ground. That move was not done in a matter of weeks, and the surge was not a complete success since the Taliban recovered after US troop levels were reduced to 8,400.
-Here us a diagram the shows what a challenge it would have been to turn matters around in the early months of 2021,
+Here us a diagram that indicates what a challenge it would have been to turn matters around in the early months of 2021,
 {{:trooplevelsafghanistan.png?400|}}
-Note that as Trump was leaving office less than 3000 US troops remained.
 The moral of the story is that if you wear rose-colored glasses\\ you can't see the flashing blue lights of the police car bearing down on you.\\