The primary objective of the armed forces in Malaysia is to defend the country's sovereignty and protect it from any and all types of threats. Malaysia's armed forces were created from the unification of military forces which arose during the first half of the 20th century when Malaya and Singapore were the subjects of British colonial rule before Malaya achieved independence in 1957. With Post reports Taliban militants are using US weaponry they seized from Afghan forces.Main article: Military history of Malaysia “We have no bases, no allies, no host government, not even a northern alliance. “Now the Taliban have access to massive caches of heavy weaponry, artillery, armored vehicles, ammunition,” Waltz told Fox News Sunday. Mike Waltz of Florida said the US has now made the Taliban more powerful than they were before 9/11 because of the weapons the insurgents seized. The speed of the collapse in Afghanistan “is because that end of the day, despite the fact we spent 20 years and tens of billions of dollars to give the best equipment, the best training and the best capacity to the Afghan national security forces, we could not give them the will and they ultimately decided that they would not fight for Kabul and they would not fight for the country,” he told NBC’s “Today.” A Taliban fighter guards a checkpoint in Kandahar, Afghanistan on August 17, 2021.ĮPA-EFE/Shutterstock Taliban fighters patrol in Kandahar, Afghanistan. In an interview on Monday, Sullivan had said the Afghan forces lacked the will to defend their country. “And from that perspective, he believes the decision he made in this context was the right decision,” Sullivan said. He said the commander-in-chief attempted to make the best decision based on the country’s national security interests. ReutersĪt that point, he said, Biden had a choice: ”He could not give it to them, with the risk that it would fall into the Taliban’s hands eventually, or he could give it to them, with the hope that they could deploy in service of defending their country.” EPA-EFE/Shutterstock An armed Taliban militant at a Kabul checkpoint. They were given to the Afghan national security forces to be able to defend themselves at the specific request and President Ghani who came to the Oval Office and asked for additional air capability, among other things,” Sullivan said. “Those Blackhawks were not given to the Taliban. Sullivan blamed the Afghan troops for handing the weapons over without a fight despite widespread criticism from across the political and international spectrum of President Biden’s handling of the troop withdrawal. “I don’t have the answer to that question,” he responded. EPA-EFE/Shutterstock A Taliban fighter holds his weapon in Kabul. Taliban fighters stand guard at a checkpoint in Kandahar. Hank Taylor was asked at a Pentagon briefing on Monday what action the US was taking to prevent military equipment being destroyed or taken by the Taliban. The Taliban, during their lightning advance over the past week to take control of Afghanistan, amassed a variety of weapons the US supplied to Afghan forces, including guns, ammunition and even Blackhawk helicopters. “We don’t have a complete picture, obviously, of where every article of defense materials has gone but certainly, a fair amount of it has fallen into the hands of the Taliban, and obviously, we don’t have a sense that they are going to readily hand it over to us at the airport,” Sullivan told reporters at a White House briefing during which he faced an onslaught of questions over the Biden administration’s handling of the sudden troop withdrawal. National security adviser Jake Sullivan admitted Tuesday that the Taliban gained significant troves of military hardware and weaponry that they took from Afghan security forces - and the Biden administration is still trying to determine the amount of American military equipment that is now in the hands of the extremist insurgents. Pregnant New Zealand reporter turns to Taliban for quarantine helpĪfghans forced to sell children, organs during Taliban takeover, starvationīiden admin looking to fast-track Afghan refugee resettlement: report New Zealand defends COVID rules that forced pregnant journalist to seek Taliban aid
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