Download or read book Reconstructing the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces Lessons from the U S Experience in Afghanistan written by Special Inspector for Afghanistan Reconstruction (U.S.) and published by U.S. Independent Agencies and Commissions. This book was released on 2017-08 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication is the second in a series of lessons learned reports which examine how the U.S. government and Departments of Defense, State, and Justice carried out reconstruction programs in Afghanistan. In particular, the report analyzes security sector assistance (SSA) programs to create, train and advise the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF) between 2002 and 2016. This publication concludes that the effort to train the ANDSF needs to continue, and provides recommendations for the SSA programs to be improved, based on lessons learned from careful analysis of real reconstruction situations in Afghanistan. The publication states that the United States was never prepared to help create Afghan police and military forces capable of protecting that country from internal and external threats. It is the hope of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), John F. Sopko, that this publication, and other SIGAR reports will create a body of work that can help provide reasonable solutions to help United States agencies and military forces improve reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan. Related items: Counterterrorism publications can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/catalog/counterterrorism Counterinsurgency publications can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/catalog/counterinsurgency Warfare & Military Strategy publications can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/catalog/warfare-military-strategy Afghanistan War publications can be found here: https://bookstore.gpo.gov/catalog/afghanistan-war

Download or read book Reconstructing the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces written by United States. Office of the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Security Force Assistance in Afghanistan written by Terrence K. Kelly and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2011-08-08 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Security force assistance (SFA) is a central pillar of the counterinsurgency campaign being waged by U.S. and coalition forces in Afghanistan. This monograph analyzes SFA efforts in Afghanistan over time, documents U.S. and international approaches to building the Afghan force from 2001 to 2009, and provides observations and recommendations that emerged from extensive fieldwork in Afghanistan in 2009 and their implications for the U.S. Army.

Download or read book Afghanistan Security written by Charles Michael Johnson and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2009-02 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 2002, the U.S. has worked to develop the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF). The U.S. Dept. of Defense, through its Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan, directs U.S. efforts to develop the Afghan National Army (ANA) and, in conjunction with the Dept. of State, the Afghan National Police (ANP). To follow up on recommendations from a 2005 report on the ANSF, this report analyzed the extent to which U.S. plans for the ANSF contain criteria that was previously recommended. The author also examined progress made and challenges faced in developing the ANA and ANP. Includes recommendations. Charts and tables.

Download or read book Afghan National Security Forces written by Anthony H. Cordesman and published by CSIS. This book was released on 2010 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes bibliographical references (p. ).

Download or read book Afghan National Security Forces written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book United States Plan for Sustaining the Afghanistan National Security Forces written by Barry Leonard and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Developing the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF), which includes both the Afghan National Army and Afghan National Police, is one of the U.S.¿s top priorities in Afghanistan. The purpose of the ANSF Development Program is to grow the capacity and capability of the ANSF in line with internationally agreed benchmarks solidified in the 2006 Afghanistan Compact. The desired end state is a professional, capable, respected, multi-ethnic ANSF, with competent ministries and staffs and sustaining institutions, capable of directing, planning, commanding, controlling, training and supporting the ANSF.

Download or read book Winning in Afghanistan written by Anthony H. Cordesman and published by CSIS. This book was released on 2009 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Details the establishment of the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF). Examines future prospects of this force by analyzing its strengths and weaknesses, and views these within a broader context of the civil, military, and economic conflict that affects both Afghanistan and Pakistan.

Download or read book Afghan National Security Forces and Security Lead Transition written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Training and Equipping Afghan Security Forces written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Afghan National Security Forces written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Afghanistan Papers written by Craig Whitlock and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-08-30 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Washington Post Best Book of 2021 ​The #1 New York Times bestselling investigative story of how three successive presidents and their military commanders deceived the public year after year about America’s longest war, foreshadowing the Taliban’s recapture of Afghanistan, by Washington Post reporter and three-time Pulitzer Prize finalist Craig Whitlock. Unlike the wars in Vietnam and Iraq, the US invasion of Afghanistan in 2001 had near-unanimous public support. At first, the goals were straightforward and clear: defeat al-Qaeda and prevent a repeat of 9/11. Yet soon after the United States and its allies removed the Taliban from power, the mission veered off course and US officials lost sight of their original objectives. Distracted by the war in Iraq, the US military become mired in an unwinnable guerrilla conflict in a country it did not understand. But no president wanted to admit failure, especially in a war that began as a just cause. Instead, the Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations sent more and more troops to Afghanistan and repeatedly said they were making progress, even though they knew there was no realistic prospect for an outright victory. Just as the Pentagon Papers changed the public’s understanding of Vietnam, The Afghanistan Papers contains “fast-paced and vivid” (The New York Times Book Review) revelation after revelation from people who played a direct role in the war from leaders in the White House and the Pentagon to soldiers and aid workers on the front lines. In unvarnished language, they admit that the US government’s strategies were a mess, that the nation-building project was a colossal failure, and that drugs and corruption gained a stranglehold over their allies in the Afghan government. All told, the account is based on interviews with more than 1,000 people who knew that the US government was presenting a distorted, and sometimes entirely fabricated, version of the facts on the ground. Documents unearthed by The Washington Post reveal that President Bush didn’t know the name of his Afghanistan war commander—and didn’t want to meet with him. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld admitted that he had “no visibility into who the bad guys are.” His successor, Robert Gates, said: “We didn’t know jack shit about al-Qaeda.” The Afghanistan Papers is a “searing indictment of the deceit, blunders, and hubris of senior military and civilian officials” (Tom Bowman, NRP Pentagon Correspondent) that will supercharge a long-overdue reckoning over what went wrong and forever change the way the conflict is remembered.

Download or read book Expert Assessments on the Afghan National Security Forces written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Afghan National Security Forces written by John F. Sopko and published by . This book was released on 2014-04-06 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 2005, Congress has appropriated almost $53 billion for the Afghanistan Security Forces Fund to train, equip, and sustain the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF). The process of transferring security responsibility to the Afghans is expected to be completed by the end of 2014, which will coincide with the completion of the current drawdown of U.S. and coalition forces. This audit report assessed the extent to which (1) the International Security Assistance Force's (ISAF's) tool for evaluating the manning, training, and equipping capacity of the ANSF -- the Commander's Unit Assessment Tool (CUAT) -- was consistently applied to assess ANSF units; and (2) ISAF is taking steps to plan for the continued collection, validation, analysis, and reporting of ANSF capacity assessments during the military drawdown and the transition of security responsibility to the Afghan government. Figures. This is a print on demand report.

Download or read book No Time to Lose Promoting the Accountability of the Afghan National Security Forces written by Rebecca Barber and published by Oxfam. This book was released on 2011 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Afghanistan Security written by United States Government Accountability Office and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-01-21 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Afghanistan Security: Lack of Systematic Tracking Raises Significant Accountability Concerns about Weapons Provided to Afghan National Security Forces

Download or read book Afghanistan Security written by Charles Michael Johnson and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The DoD with the Dept. of State (State), directs international efforts to train and equip Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF). As part of these efforts, the U.S. Army Security Assistance Command and the Navy spent about $120 million to procure small arms and light weapons for ANSF. International donors also provided weapons. This report analyzed whether DoD can account for these weapons and ensure ANSF can safeguard and account for them. The author reviewed Defense and State documents on accountability procedures, reviewed contractor reports on ANSF training, met with U.S. and Afghan officials, observed accountability practices, analyzed inventory records, and attempted to locate a random sample of weapons.