Can we kindly put some light why would US spend for buying arms for Afghanistan from Israel because we all Know Afghanistan is not in a position to have any defence deal, has nothing to pay for such deals.
Here are a few reasons, link:
No Troop Increase Recommendation In Afghan Report: Gates
I am not happy with that link but I will post a better one soon.
Reasons:
1) "The administration has raised the stakes by transforming the Afghan war from a limited intervention into a more ambitious and potentially risky counterinsurgency,"
2) "None of the civilian officials or military officers interviewed in Afghanistan and elsewhere expected substantial progress in the short term.
3) Capitol Hill has grown wary of approving annual war chests after years of ever-increasing costs for Iraq.
McChrystal Sees Afghan Army, Police Insufficient: Obama Strategy Requires More Funds, U.S. Troops - washingtonpost.com
4) McChrystal, the newly arrived top commander in Afghanistan, has concluded that the Afghan security forces will have to be far larger than currently planned
5) "There are not enough Afghan National Army and Afghan National Police for our forces to partner with in operations . . ."
6) Without significant increases in the Afghan Army and Police, said another U.S. official involved in training Afghan forces, "we will lose the war."
Conclusion
The
have recognised that, in order to win, they need more Afghans for the job. They are struggling to achieve the one Afghan per marine strategy. In operations, the Afghan Army will be used as the first to engage the enemy, which is a far more safer strategy. In order to do that, they need more men, resources, hardware and training. The War for the
will be much cheaper if they could raise Afghanistan's own Army and Police. The Afghan Government will have to fund as much of this with their own money.
