A new Task Force is reportedly being planned under Main requiring S/A pulls from four DOJ agencies to work as investigators seeking criminals both inside and outside twenty-seven different US military equipment and supply contractors willing to sell and smuggle spare parts to Afghanistan to keep all or most of our captured (and handed-over) US military equipment operational for years to come. The cost of this task force is said to be budgeted in the three-figure millions range, but the cost is believed to be far less than allowing the Taliban to maintain and operate the large supply of US military equipment it 'inherited' from cowardly Afghan Army forces who were instructed to render extensive damage to the equipment before abandoning it but, obviously, did not.
The DOD believes that neither China nor Russia will spend money and resources to manufacture and produce the spare parts that will soon be needed to repair the abandoned US equipment. However, it is believed that Russia and China will seek mineral digging rights in Afghanistan to supply their own military equipment to the new army and air force being planned by the Taliban government.
The emphasis by the new TF will be to discover, identify, arrest and prosecute anyone in the US and abroad working to obtain US-made spare military or industrial parts for delivery to the Taliban in Afghanistan. Special Agents from a variety of DOD and DOJ entities will be recruited.
Rumors spoken by some alleging that the US government deliberately allowed US military equipment to pass into the hands of the Taliban for the sole purpose of creating a new DOD customer of US military equipment by the Taliban government have not been substantiated.