>>64124844
>Their urban elites did though. All we needed to do was give their urbanites the tools to beat their hick cousins into line.
We already gave the Afghan National Army high tech tools that they could have theoretically used to beat their hick cousins. What happened in practice is the soldiers who were supposed to use the gear were often ghosts who only existed on paper, and the high tech just got sold to the Taliban. I don't see how FPV drones would have fixed that.

It's important to understand that the biggest problem is that the Afghan National Government suffered horribly from Russia style corruption. Only without access to mountains of Soviet era heavy stores or the institutional knowledge of how to wrangle hordes of demoralized peasants into performing human wave assaults. This isn't a problem that you can resolve long term with handing over more advanced weapons.