Let's start out with Xi Dumbthing's statement from earlier today...

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We paid their salaries, provided for the maintenance of their air force, something the Taliban doesn't have.

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Funny thing about that AFA: Biden gutted maintenance and logistics support while inexplicably sending more platforms.

Bought the equipment, failed to maintain contract support.

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As of April, more than 16,000 DoD contractors were working in Afghanistan, including more than 6,100 U.S. citizens, according to an inspector general report. A Pentagon official confirmed that number is now in the "hundreds." POLITICO reached out to two of the largest U.S.-based contractors working in Afghanistan, Leidos Holdings and DynCorp International, now part of Amentum Services Inc., for comment. Leidos directed questions to the Pentagon, and Amentum did not reply.

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The Biden Administration was warned well in advance on this issue...

Pentagon dubious about AFG AF ability to stay in the air.

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"Contractors provide 100% of the maintenance of Afghan Air Force Black Hawks and C-130s and a significant share of maintenance of its light combat support aircraft," said John F. Sopko, the consistently blunt Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction. "DOD's Train, Advise, and Assist Command Air (TAAC-Air) reports that no Afghan airframe can be sustained as combat effective for more than a few months without contractor support. So this is a critical need."

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The Sopko Report can be found here...

https://www.sigar.mil/pdf/spotlight/2021-High-Risk-List.pdf

The assessment referenced in the report above can be found on page 20. TAAC-Air reported this in January 2021.

So we have a situation where the Afghan Air Force, the one the Delaware Flash claimed was maintained, had been largely stripped of logistical and maintenance support at the moment it was needed by the ground forces in Afghanistan.

The Afghan Air Force was beaten before it ever got the chance to act, hung out to dry by a President who sacrificed them for sake of a self-serving 9/11 "Mission Accomplished" style event.

Biden thought they could be taught via Zoom. It's no different with his domestic policy of keeping elementary kids at home learning via zoom as well. The results will be similar.

RulesForTheeNotForMe said:

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Biden thought they could be taught via Zoom. It's no different with his domestic policy of keeping elementary kids at home learning via zoom as well. The results will be similar.

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Even the Los Angeles Times was ringing the warning bells in June...

https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2021-06-18/afghan-air-force-story

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But there is a deeper problem: Over the last two decades the U.S. has built an army in its own image, with Afghan security forces relying on some 18,000 contractors for everything from buying fuel and bullets to doing payroll to the critical tasks of maintaining the 162 aircraft used by the AAF and training the pilots who fly them. Since late 2019, 94% of U.S. forces involved in training and advising the air force have left, so contractors have taken on almost all roles. Without continued contractor support, according to a Defense Department inspector general's report earlier this year, those warplanes would be combat-effective for only a few months.

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The Biden White House claims it was surprised by the speed of the Taliban's takeover.

But they knew exactly what they were doing when they carved out logistical/maintenance cover for the Afghan Air Force.