And by the way, there are 40 million Pashtuns, stop referening to them as TRIBALS, they are a Nation and certainly not uncivilized.
Many tribals located in Pakistan and afghanistan love to quote history that they were never defeated, and thus Americans and NATO will be kicked out too.
There are many flaws in this approach.
- Past success is never a guarantee for your future returns
- You need a super power (worldly) to defeat a worldly superpower
- You need safe bases outside the zone of conflict
- Airpower will destroy explode your @rses to tiny bits of smelly material.
Pre WWII invasions of Afghanistan didn't have an air sport, so tribals were able to use the geographical terrain.
Not anymore. Airpower is not a guarantee for success but it is an awesome arsenal in the hand of modern commanders.
Afghans were only able to defeat Commies because USA helped in arming and training the tribals. Now that USA is there in Af-g there has to be another superpower to help Talibans. So far there is no country let alone superpower who is willing to support the tribals.
Af-gs were provided safe bases by the Pakistan gov during Commie invasion. Not anymore. What little there is in FATA can be bombed to smithereens in a very short time.
Thus the Tribals perhaps for the first time in their sad history will realize that "Past success is never a guarantee for your future returns".
It is time for the tribals to quit living in an era of 500BC and willingly become civilized. Otherwise the world will continue bombing them into submission.