NATO Lessons: 1880 Maiwand-Afghans defeats UK: Trained sabateurs may defect! Drones sabotaging peace deals may create blowback!

Posted on February 7, 2008 by moinansari

“When you’re wounded and left on Afghanistan’s plains,
And the women come out to cut up what remains,
Jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains
   An’ go to your Gawd like a soldier.”

Rudyard Kipling

British defeat at the battle of MaiwandBattle of Raiwind History is taught to us in silos. Though Pakistani history is linked to the destiny of Iran and the Central Asian republics, Pakistanis are not taught the history of Iran or of Central Asia. it is pendantic to see that separation of Azarbaijan from Iran by Tzarist Russia. The Amu Darya separates Afghanistan from the Central Asian republics. While Russia moved towards Iran and snatched Azerbaijan, Lord Curzon first tried to extend the British empire to the Oxus (Amu darya) and but was forced to withdraw back by the fierce Afghans. After the OCtober revolution, Stalin dislocated all the Chechans and Tartars and sent them to Siberia. They returned and wanted to secede from Russia.

“The Battle of Maiwand was one of the most serious defeats ever sustained by the British Army in ‘India’ (Afghanistan)“

Indian Empiure includes Ceylon, Burma, AfghanistanHistory is taught to us in silos. Though Pakistani history is linked to the destiny of Iran and the Central Asian republics, Pakistanis are not tauhgt the history of Iran or of Central Asia. it is pendantic to see that separation of Azarbaijan from Iran by Tzarist Russia. The Amu Darya separates Afghanistan from the Central Asian republics. While Russia moved towards Iran and snatched Azerbaijan, Lord Curzon first tried to extend the British empire to the Oxus (Amu darya) and but was forced to withdraw back by the fierce Afghans. After the OCtober revolution, Stalin dislocated all the Chechans and Tartars and sent them to Siberia. They returned and wanted to secede from Russia.indian-empire-1893-constables-atlas.jpg

Unfortuantely for the young Britons, the lessons learned from 1880 Afghanistan and 1920 Iraq are lost to the Oxbridge Eaton-Harrow elite and the British schools for commoners. 

On 3rd July 1880 a British/Indian column of some 2700 fighting troops under Brigadier George Burrows set out from Kandahar. They were supported by 6000 British trained Afghans to defeat Ayub Khan the governor of Herat.

When the battle began in 120 degree heat, most of the 6000 British trained Afghans moved over to Ayub Khan with their guns. The battle took a heavy toll on Britain.