Opinion | Ronald E. Neumann: Afghan resistance to the Taliban needs U.S. support — and a big morale boost

Afghan garrisons are remoted, but the US has withdrawn aerial resupply assets. It additionally withdrew the international contractors on whom the Afghans depended to run its provide system, and those that maintained Afghan fighters and helicopters. Given Afghans’ restricted airlift capabilities, troopers now marvel, in the event that they battle, whether or not they’ll be resupplied or evacuated. As one senior Afghan official instructed me, “We are able to defend many locations which we can not maintain.”