
Taliban captured PD9 in Lashkargah, Helmand, also claim to have captured PD6 and PD7, and fighting is ongoing in PD1. Biden’s less than effective “Over the Horizon” strategy might need to include additional bombing runs.

Taliban captured PD9 in Lashkargah, Helmand, also claim to have captured PD6 and PD7, and fighting is ongoing in PD1. Biden’s less than effective “Over the Horizon” strategy might need to include additional bombing runs.

Lashkargah residents waiting out the overnight bombing run.
USAF B-52 GRIMM72 will be back tomorrow night.

New skylight.

Rubble.

USAF B-52 GRIMM72 returning to Afghanistan to conduct a late night bombing run over Lashkargah, Helmand.
If I was Ghani, I’d covertly supplement Afghan forces with Blackwater mercenaries.

Though they deny the Taliban are in the city, Maiwand 215th Corps still sent SOF KKA reinforcements to Lashkargah city.
Ghani is not Assad, so they should be careful about deriving strategy from that.