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How America Lost the ‘Good War’ in Afghanistan | Jonathan Schroden

Hidden Forces

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How to Build an Afghan Army?

Romsfeld's view was, we can get away with building an extremely small army. And so right? That was sort of the approved size limit for the afghan army at the outset. But they didn't take into account things like the level of human capital that you were working with. The country has extremely high rates of illiteracy, innumeracy. You know, many of the recruits that they were working with came from extremely impoverished and agrarian backgrounds.

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