Afghanistan Has 400,000 Soldiers Yet The Country Was Taken by Taliban Who Has at Most 75,000 Fighters
The story goes back to early 2000’s
When US and NATO defeated Taliban
Many of the Taliban fighters did not run out of Afghanistan.
A lot of negotiations took place with tribal leaders of these fighters.
As a result many of these fighters simply dropped their arms and were recruited into the Afghani Army.
They remained in the army waiting for a day US will leave Afghanistan.
They got promotions, training, ammunition and money from US for those 20 years legally.
As soon as US left, they simply went back to what they have been doing …although now as the nation’s power brokers
The former Taliban leader is now the Head of Government of Afghanistan.
