{"id":35283,"date":"2021-08-15T23:10:22","date_gmt":"2021-08-15T14:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/15\/a-tale-of-two-armies-why-afghan-forces-proved-no-match-for-the-taliban"},"modified":"2021-08-15T23:10:22","modified_gmt":"2021-08-15T14:10:22","slug":"a-tale-of-two-armies-why-afghan-forces-proved-no-match-for-the-taliban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=35283","title":{"rendered":"A tale of two armies: why Afghan forces proved no match for the Taliban"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Poorly led and riddled with corruption, the Afghan army was overrun in  a matter of weeks<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2021\/aug\/15\/afghanistan-taliban-close-in-on-kabul-as-last-government-stronghold-in-north-falls\">Taliban enters Kabul \u2013 live updates<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Taliban have 80,000 troops in comparison with a nominal 300,699 serving the Afghan government, yet the whole country has been effectively overrun in a matter of weeks as military commanders surrendered without a fight in a matter of hours.<\/p>\n<p>It is a tale of two armies, one poorly equipped but highly motivated ideologically, and the other nominally well-equipped, but dependent on Nato support, poorly led and riddled with corruption.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/aug\/15\/a-tale-of-two-armies-why-afghan-forces-proved-no-match-for-the-taliban\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Poorly led and riddled with corruption, the Afghan army was overrun in  a matter of weeksTaliban enters Kabul \u2013 live updatesThe Taliban have 80,000 troops in comparison with a nominal 300,699 serving the Afghan government, yet the whole country has bee&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":493,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,61,44,45,47,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-us-foreign-policy","category-us-news","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/493"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35284,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35283\/revisions\/35284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}