VRPdommy

Nice story.
While factual to some points. It is misleading by far.
The network of tunnels has been there for at least a few thousand years.
'Few' new passageways were constructed and mainly cache rooms made to store weapons and ammo and fighters. They became the hide-out of choice because they were unreachable by armaments.

Considering you can't get the kinda equipment needed to those areas very easy, it would have taken 5k men 50 years to build such a array of tunnels with modern equipment.
They were there before Christ was a sperm. They are sprinkled throughout the mountainous regions. And by all means there are plenty more of them. Several hundred of these new MOAB's would not destroy them all.

When the US-Afghan war started, the Russians gave us most maps of the known tunnels they explored in their 80's war with them and we used and tested every hardened 'bunker buster ' we had to seal-up these caverns. Few of them were very effective.
Hence the re-designed MOAB.

Even if it was not effective in destroying the depths of all the tunnels, it would have sealed the fate of everyone inside and the arms cache inside. For they have not the man power or equipment to open them back up.

When ever there is a release of some new 'startling' info in or about the US military, you always have to suspect it is not a complete story and has political motivation to steer public opinion. Good bad or indifferent. But you should always ask plenty more questions before buying into it on the wholesale level.