Battle for Afghanistan: Lessons from the First Anglo-Afghan War

[@brokenbulbs]

A most blind confidence, completely unwarranted, brought about the danger. And that embicility, unprecedented, completed the catastrophe.

[@brendaneduffy5946]

and 3 years after this was posted, we are still there

[@thomaskelly3474]

And 8 years after this was posted, we're gone. The old Afghan man from the 1:00 hour mark was correct.

[@sdlkfjhasiodf1477]

what is the word he is using at 27:11 :"declourt"???!!!

[@ashkisten3111]

Interesting material.... volume please. 🎙😐

[@Amaaaaan1]

Can someone please tell him to come close to the mic and talk!

[@BHASKARKRISHNATREYA]

LOL at the prediction that it was unlikely for Taliban to return to power!

[@davemacnicol8404]

George Costanza my man! I knew he was really a brit!

[@ragnarososo]

Well looks like history repeats

[@adambartlett7955]

3:16 to skip intro

[@MuhammadYousaf-yf2pg]

Afghanistan's destiny is not effected by the neighbours but vice versa as the history of India is privy to that;

[@BlueWizard09]

Afghans 4 Anglo Saxons 0

[@klmadan2071]

Speaker is talking for himself. We canon hear him clear.

[@jimgray4085]

The way he calls him "Willie"!

[@peshpraq5137]

That willy of mine should get closer to the mic we can not hear him properly.

[@toobalkain]

Isn’t this guy’s body out of proportion with his head? As if he were a body builder and the head couldn’t keep up the pace of growth.

[@donny_doyle]

6:01 starts...

[@michaelsweeney4547]

Ah... microphone

[@Affandy2010]

Who is watching this 2024 😂😂 this history is inevitable

[@paulstone670]

Poems real ending: Like a soldier who's INSANE. Would have never went there if sane.

[@michaelsweeney4547]

Can't hear you.

[@ziawalizada3184]

coz he wants to hide the realty

[@ENTERTAININGVIDEOS1]

1:16:00 That is what exactly happened!! Everybody was aware that it is bound to happen!!!

[@dbrannick9585]

23:58

[@thebeanymac]

Audio is tragic.

[@MuhammadYousaf-yf2pg]

Even if Chinese come, they have Gangez Khan's blood running through veins.

[@knockshinnoch1950]

Just read his book- fascinating. A period of UK history that has been "conveniently" ignored

[@RicTic66]

Ignored? There are dozens of videos and scores of books on the subject.

[@matikhorasani3842]

Ignored in the sense that the conflicts role is downplayed and deemed irrelivent and portrayed as if the British simply weren´t interested in Afghanistan . All empires do this when they get their assess handed to them by the supposedly weaker foe.

[@kelpticgoddessfibreartsstu9304]

Wow! how prophetic .... Kabul just fell to the Taliban and US is in disgrace....they left all their equipment and their people....yes China wants Afghanistans minerals so the show goes on.....this guy should be advising govt about Afghanistan

[@sdlkfjhasiodf1477]

1:03:18 has meme potential

[@MuhammadYousaf-yf2pg]

Also this was not Afhgans who fought, but Taliban.... so Afghans did have little role to cause defeat because in every case they sided with the foreign invaders.

[@TheAfghan72]

Lol what? Taliban didn't exist in Soviet times, the Mujhadeen were all Afghans who were aided by America to fight the soviets. All Pakistan did was brainwash young Afghan refugees into doing Jihad in Afghanistan sometime during the brink of the Soviet defeat. All Pakistan did was fund extremist groups and these groups would later become the Taliban. We can thank your country for terrorism in Afghanistan. Oh and just remember who converted you to Islam you former British slave.

[@MuhammadYousaf-yf2pg]

... So for this the punishment for converting to Islam, let us basal pora kawal an ghuri da muslmanawalo?

[@zaroonyakhyakhan4514]

@@TheAfghan72 begheratthob ma kawa wrora

[@MuhammadYousaf-yf2pg]

and one thing UK is also responsible for the humiliation of US in Afghanistan for you fellows did not timely advised.

[@jcbairmaster73]

You cannot nor ever will in against tribespeople,they have all the odds in their favour.

[@MuhammadYousaf-yf2pg]

One and the foremost reason has been relying on the people like Shah Shuja and his direct descendant like Karzai and alike.

[@TheAfghan72]

Karzai is not a descendant of Shuja.

[@elhamhemat572]

Shah Shuja was not even full popalzai, his mother was Indian and he was one of 300 children of Timur shah. he never lived in Afghanistan and he couldn't even speak Pashtu.

[@MuhammadYousaf-yf2pg]

@@elhamhemat572 Neither was Sher Shah Sori--Could even speak Pashto, had never been to Afghanistan, not even perhaps to Peshawar.

[@elhamhemat572]

@@MuhammadYousaf-yf2pg At least he didn't sell his country like a coward but also Shah Shuja was mentally sick. he would torture his workers. most of the history was written by the British because he lived in a British captive for 30 years.

[@HasnainKhan-lh6si]

@@elhamhemat572 Shuja was the 🐶 of British and Sher Sha was loud, proud and wise Afghan.

[@tattat44]

As if the Taliban need to be coerced grow poppy.

[@MDM0915]

Not very prophetic regarding the Taliban taking over again. Interesting to hear how convinced former CIA agent was regarding this. Obviously this is hindsight and it is great to listen to what very knowledgeable were thinking years in advance.

[@Affandy2010]

Amrullah Saleh was dead wrong 😑

[@MuhammadYousaf-yf2pg]

That is wishfull thinking