The United States spent twenty years and roughly ninety billion dollars building the Afghan National Army from nothing. Rifles, helicopters, jets, MRAPs, surveillance drones — the full package. In August of 2021, the whole thing collapsed in eleven days. The Taliban held a victory parade through Kandahar and it took thirty-five minutes for the convoy of captured American vehicles to pass. 0:00 Introduction 0:36 ANA — Armored Vehicles 2:56 ANA — Engineering and Support Vehicles 5:17 ANA — Artillery and Air Defense 7:23 ANA — Aircraft 15:58 ANA — Small Arms 30:29 DRA — Introduction 30:56 DRA — Tanks 35:10 DRA — IFVs and APCs 39:41 DRA — Engineering and Support Vehicles 42:29 DRA — Artillery 49:51 DRA — Air Defense 54:39 DRA — Aircraft 1:07:07 DRA — Small Arms But here's what most people don't know: America wasn't the first superpower to try this. Thirty years earlier, the Soviet Union buil

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