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ANA Zendabod, it seems that the ANA may not be able to defend its bases. Article here excerpts below:
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Casualties aren’t the only issue. “They have a desertion problem,” John Pike, director of the military information Website GlobalSecurity.org, said of the Afghan security forces. Starting in September 2013, Kabul lost more than 30,000 security personnel to all sorts of attrition including desertion, SIGAR found.
Afghanistan’s military could “eventually disintegrate” from all these losses, Pike told War Is Boring.
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The Afghan government might also be worried that the previous security guards were corrupt, disloyal or otherwise unreliable. Historically, countries often create new military units when they “can’t count on the loyalty of the existing forces,” Pike noted.
The new personnel “will not be drawn from local areas, local groups or local organizations surrounding particular facilities,” the recent policy prescriptions explain. This provision would imply Afghan officials are concerned about insurgent groups infiltrating the new FPF.
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That is, assuming Afghanistan hasn’t “imploded” by then, Pike warned.
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Casualties aren’t the only issue. “They have a desertion problem,” John Pike, director of the military information Website GlobalSecurity.org, said of the Afghan security forces. Starting in September 2013, Kabul lost more than 30,000 security personnel to all sorts of attrition including desertion, SIGAR found.
Afghanistan’s military could “eventually disintegrate” from all these losses, Pike told War Is Boring.
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The Afghan government might also be worried that the previous security guards were corrupt, disloyal or otherwise unreliable. Historically, countries often create new military units when they “can’t count on the loyalty of the existing forces,” Pike noted.
The new personnel “will not be drawn from local areas, local groups or local organizations surrounding particular facilities,” the recent policy prescriptions explain. This provision would imply Afghan officials are concerned about insurgent groups infiltrating the new FPF.
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That is, assuming Afghanistan hasn’t “imploded” by then, Pike warned.
