The United States Army has left approximately 65,000 vehicles in Afghanistan

The American troops withdrew from Afghanistan, but they did not take everything. According to a Washington Post report, meanwhile, war material they left around 65,000 vehicles, which correspond to Ford Ranger pickup trucks and Humvees SUVs.

The value of the war assets that the US military has abandoned in the Asian country is unclear. We are talking about 83 billion dollars roughly speaking, although this includes everything that is invested in equipping, training and housing the troops.

The Washington Post published figures from the United States Government Transparency Office which refer to 65,000 vehicles sent to Afghanistan for ground operations. And that could fail, since only the period 2005-2016 is mentioned. In the last five years, other units may have arrived.

Afghan forces may have found nearly 43,000 Ford Ranger units equipped for war work and around 22 thousand copies of the Humvee, since many of them may already be decommissioned.

It’s a bunch of Rangers. In fact, that’s the same number of units Ford sold to the American public in the first eight months of 2019. About 70 percent of the total equipment ordered went to the Afghan armywhile the others were turned over to the American police.

Videos of Afghan soldiers leading some of these units are already circulating on social media. We do not know in any case if it is political propaganda or if they are really already in its power.

The American authorities assured that before withdrawing, disabled much of the abandoned weapons in Afghanistan, but they were referring to planes and helicopters. “These planes will never fly again. They can never be exploited by anyone, ”said General Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr., head of the United States Central Command. It’s hard to imagine destroying around 65,000 vehicles in such a short period of time.

In this context, former President Donald Trump issued a statement to “demand that all equipment be immediately returned to the United States, and that includes every penny of the $ 85 billion cost.”

Joe Biden, the current president, warned that there were still Americans in Afghanistan and assured that he will “make arrangements for the exit”. At the same time, he called the evacuation mission an “extraordinary success:” No country has achieved anything like this in history, with more than 120,000 people safely evacuated. This number is more than double what most experts have said to be possible. “