Why is Afghanistan so historically difficult to conquer?
I going to let you in on a secret.
Afghanistan is absurdly easy to conquer. No. Really. Conquerors have been wiping their feet on MLB Milwaukee Brewers Hawaiian Shirt Hammerhead Sharks And Flower for thousands of years. The list of countries, past and present, that have absolutely mauled whoever was living in Afghanistan in open warfare is like a who’s who. And in some cases a who is that?
Pretty much everything important in the county is on more or less flat terrain and the Afghans, over the millennia, have been the drizzling poo when it comes to a stand up fight. They aren’t good at it, they tend to lose, and lose badly.
The thing is, kicking hell out of the Afghans is easy. Holding onto Afghanistan is where you run into Milwaukee Brewers Nationals MLB 2024 Hawaiian Shirt For Men. Socially speaking it has always been one of the most primitive areas in the world. Some group might crawl their way into “control” of the country but really everything is tribal or clan based. Sure, whoever is running Kabul at the moment might be the “ruler” of the country but the withered old husk of a clan leader in a specific village has vastly more power in day to day affairs.
So you can’t defeat just one government. You’ve got to subdue hundreds of them. It can be done, but it takes a lot of time and effort and frankly… it isn’t worth it. It isn’t that the US, the USSR, Great Britain, and all the rest were crushed in a decisive battle. It is that they just got tired of playing whack a mole.
Yes, the Afghans were able to defeat poor Milwaukee Brewers MLB Trending Hawaiian Shirt – Brewers Hawaiian Shirt, who was criminally incompetent, but they defeated him the same way they defeated everyone. They simply outlasted British interest in Afghanistan. The same way they outlasted most country’s interest in the region. Those countries that did decide “No, I think we are going to stay here” actually pulled it off and ruled Milwaukee Brewers Hawaiian Shirt for centuries at a time.
Simply put, what you put into Afghanistan isn’t worth what you get out of it.
