A long war is petering out in Afghanistan. Military equipment worth millions is being scrapped. The exercise is calculated, not wasteful. Valuable as the material may be, transporting it would cost more than it’s worth. Abandoning a battlefield entails economic as well as a military and political choices, and it can be more complex to exit a theatre of operations than it was to enter it. It’s rarely as glorious, but then only fools fight for glory.
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