Who Arms The Taliban?....

[global1]

Where does the Taliban get their supplies? (guns, ammunition, vehicles, food, etc)

Why can't we cut off their supply chain to weaken them?

[doc03]

1. My number 1 guess is Saudi Arabia. nt

[getagrip_already]

2. Well, we did when the russians were there......

So it's likely the russians/chinese/iranians are all supplying arms to some faction or another.

[abqtommy]

8. The Stinger shoulder-launched missiles we provided to The Taliban (and other weapons)

are a big part of why the Russians left. But that was then.

[atreides1]

3. Good question

Pakistan and Saudi Arabia come to mind...possibly Russia and China...just a guess on my part!

[global1]

4. If We've Been Involved In Afghanistan This Long And Have Spent So Much Money There.....

and we don't know who arms them or how they get supplied - that's pretty sad.

I got to believe that we know something about their supply chain.

[Mosby]

5. They recently stole equipment from Afghanistan

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/taliban-parade-new-weapons-seized-afghan-military-u-s-withdraws-n1273081

[global1]

6. Is There A Valid Reason That We Don't Go After The Taliban's Supply Chain?.....

What's the politics of that?

How big is the Taliban Army? Where is their central command post? Who is leading them?

[Under The Radar]

7. Read the history of The Trans Afghanistan Pipeline

…or otherwise known as The Turkmenistan–Afghanistan–Pakistan–India Pipeline. It is owned by Unocal which is owned entirely by Chevron.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turkmenistan%E2%80%93Afghanistan%E2%80%93Pakistan%E2%80%93India_Pipeline?wprov=sfti1

Then look at the GDP of Afghanistan prior to 2001 and look at the GPD each year after.

https://eurasianet.org/taliban-vows-to-guarantee-safety-of-trans-afghanistan-gas-pipeline

[Under The Radar]

10. Left out this interesting detail

https://gulfnews.com/business/energy/chevron-takes-condoleezza-rice-off-the-seas-1.416198

[brooklynite]

12. Same reason we couldn't cut off the supply chain of every other terrorist group.

[sarisataka]

9. Quite likely a lot of their supplies

Are locally sourced. Afghanistan has long been known to have craftsman who can turn scrap metal into AKs. Food, vehicles and ammo are easily stolen (or "stolen&quot from police and military units.

Afghanistan also has borders with Iran, Pakistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan who are potential sources of supply. Several of those countries have reasons to supply the Tailban.

The problems include incoming supplies will not be on trucks marked with Tailban symbols. Nor will any bill of lading be accurate. It would require stopping and searching every vehicle crossing the border. Even if that could be done, it would still be easy to transport supplies with animals at any point across the borders.

It is possible to hinder a supply chain but unless there is a critical point that can be interdicted it will only be a reduction. Even the massive efforts in WW2 to cut supplies to England and Japan by Germany and the US did not stop material from coming in.

[maxsolomon]

11. The Taliban extorts/taxes Afghanis for $. Pakistani Military Intelligence, the ISI, allow supplies

to pass through Pakistan, and the Pashtun in Pakistan's NW Territories facilitate it.

I'm quite sure the US Military knows exactly how the supply lines work.

Remember, OBL hid in a house in Pakistan for over a decade. The ISI had to have known.