{"id":4170,"date":"2021-09-17T06:01:50","date_gmt":"2021-09-17T00:31:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/?p=4170"},"modified":"2024-12-27T16:14:58","modified_gmt":"2024-12-27T10:44:58","slug":"state-and-status-of-air-power-assets-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/2021\/09\/17\/state-and-status-of-air-power-assets-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"196: State and Status of Air Power Assets in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Taliban have an Air Force. Really? Air Marshal Anil Khosla I Aadi Achint\" width=\"525\" height=\"295\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/noNxRu769VE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #800080;\">For Selective viewing, please click on the link below:-<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/noNxRu769VE\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000080;\">1 Introduction.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/noNxRu769VE?t=88\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #008000;\">2. Perspective (1:28 onwards).<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/noNxRu769VE?t=253\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #800000;\">3. What all air power assets are in Afghanistan (4:13 onwards).<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/noNxRu769VE?t=745\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #993366;\">4. What is the status of air power assets in Afghanistan and their likely future (12:25 onwards).<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/noNxRu769VE?t=1852\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #993300;\">5. China and Pakistan involvement (30:52 onwards).<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/noNxRu769VE?t=2600\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #003366;\">6 Concluding thoughts 43:20 onwards).<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #800000;\"><u>Bottom Line<\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #800000;\">State\u00a0 and status of Afghanistan air force and the air power assets is not good. External help would be required to build them up, operationalise them and operate them\u00a0 .<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #ff0000;\"><u>Question<\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #ff0000;\">what in your view is the future of Afghanistan?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #800080;\"><u>Suggestions and value additions are most welcome<\/u><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; color: #000080;\">For regular updates, please register here<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"qdmc1E6Jxy\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/subscribe\/\">Subscribe<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px);\" title=\"&#8220;Subscribe&#8221; &#8212; Air Marshal&#039;s Perspective\" src=\"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/subscribe\/embed\/#?secret=fYtf1O1ukQ#?secret=qdmc1E6Jxy\" data-secret=\"qdmc1E6Jxy\" width=\"525\" height=\"296\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For Selective viewing, please click on the link below:- 1 Introduction. 2. Perspective (1:28 onwards). 3. What all air power assets are in Afghanistan (4:13 onwards). 4. What is the status of air power assets in Afghanistan and their likely future (12:25 onwards). 5. China and Pakistan involvement (30:52 onwards). 6 Concluding thoughts 43:20 onwards). &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/2021\/09\/17\/state-and-status-of-air-power-assets-in-afghanistan\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;196: State and Status of Air Power Assets in Afghanistan&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72,77,5,19,25,68,13,78,56,28,1,90,11,115,122,94],"tags":[6,24,47,51,39,34,35,52,30,45,36,40],"class_list":["post-4170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-aircraft","category-airpower","category-article","category-china","category-geo-politics","category-interview","category-military-capability","category-pakistan","category-technology","category-uncategorized","category-video","category-videos","category-war-and-warfare","category-warfare","category-weapons","tag-airpower","tag-china","tag-defence-services","tag-flying","tag-india","tag-interview","tag-pakistan","tag-strategic-thinking","tag-technology","tag-usa","tag-video","tag-world-order"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4170","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4170"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4170\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8701,"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4170\/revisions\/8701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/55nda.com\/blogs\/anil-khosla\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}