"One can only speculate if the fall of the Afghan Army will enable American made surplus M4s to hit the market."
I suspect there will be fewer Uncle Sam dollars for US small arms manufacturers for the immediate future. That should leave some manufacturer’s needing income.
This may seem like a minor point, but its not. The press is already beating their drum over how the US pullout "armed" the Taliban with modern equipment, completely ignoring the failure of those people the US trusted to do what we expected them to do.
Well...technically we "left" in 1973 and the Saigon regime fell in 1975. In Afghanistan I think the regime left before we did!
How ironic that declared terrorists are given select-fire American-made combat weapons, but patriotic American citizens can't be trusted with the same firearms.
According to what Trump said last night, the U S. Still owned multiple Blackhawks, tanks, and Bradley's that were left there. Hardware was on loan to Afghan Army.Just out of curiosity, I wonder how much (and what) US OWNED material was left behind. US made material, sold or given to the Afghan govt is no longer our responsibility, its theirs, which is a different matter than US owned material being left for the Taliban to take.
This may seem like a minor point, but its not. The press is already beating their drum over how the US pullout "armed" the Taliban with modern equipment, completely ignoring the failure of those people the US trusted to do what we expected them to do.
Unlike WWII but like Vietnam, when we left Afghanistan we left an armed, organized "enemy" force in the field to fight the govt we left behind us. Not even remotely like what happened in Germany and Japan in 1945.
popular history today teaches that after we left (actually as we were leaving) the govt of South Vietnam fell, "because it was corrupt" completely ignoring the fact of half a dozen or so NVA divisions (including a couple armored divisions) invading the country, in addition to the Viet Cong already there.
What will "popular" history say about Afghanistan in a few years, I wonder...
They will sell more than they will use.Really? Show of hands - Who here thinks that the Taliban will use their newly acquire firearms responsibly?