Nine years and one thousand, three hundred and eighty four casualties and counting (Washington Post) after the war in Afghanistan began, we are just now getting around to delivering Abrams M1A1 tanks to our forces in Afghanistan.
According to Jim Garamone of the American Forces Press Service "servicemembers in Afghanistan’s Regional Command–Southwest will receive 14 M1A1 Abrams tanks to aid in the fight against the Taliban. The Marine Corps tanks, which pack a super-accurate 120 mm main gun, will begin to arrive in January."
Regardless of the controversy of whether we should be in Afghanistan or not, I thought we had learned in Vietnam what happens when a war is fought without a total, all-out commitment to victory. We had no problem employing tanks in Iraq, so why are they just now delivering tanks to to our troops in Afghanistan?
I don't get it. Do you?
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