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According to Brigadier Carleton-Smith, if the West reduces its expectations, then they can hand over tactical responsibility to the Afghan Army in three to ...
By Michelle Tan - Staff writer QALAT, Afghanistan - The Afghan National Army is ditching its AK47s in favor of the M16 rifle as part of a force ...
Kabul, Oct 11 (Xinhua) A suicide bombing targeting one vehicle of Afghan National Army (ANA) wounded at least six people including one soldier Saturday in ...
It also has a separate section, guarded by the Afghan Army, where 120 Taliban prisoners are kept, including some returned from the US detention facility at ...

Behind ISAF is the Afghan National Army with 76000 troops and more than 30000 Afghan policemen who the British Ministry of Defence describe as "fully ...
First, the US has decided it will provide the resources to double the size of the Afghan National Army to 120000. Molan believes it probably has to be twice ...
There was also a unit of the Afghan National Army (ANA) mentored by Canadians, and a company of Royal Marines conducting a parallel operation not far away. ...
Gates said that he heard ``no pushback'' from other alliance members on proposals to expand the size of the Afghan National Army and create a NATO trust ...
But at the same time we must fully back the training and equipping of the Afghan Army and police, and we must prepare for a day where Afghanistan will be no ...
Khost, Afghanistan - Less than six hours after a helicopter drops a combined US and Afghan Army patrol by the mountain border with Pakistan, ...
It cites gains in the building of the Afghan National Army, the officials said. But they said it also laid out in stark terms what it described as the ...
The exit strategy now being talked about is the building up of the Afghan Army. They appear determined to find the money (estimated at $20 billion) ...
the Pentagon chief also emphasized the need to build up the Afghan Army, which the United States would like to see double in size to more than 130000 troops ...
Gates said he would press for a more comprehensive NATO approach to the war incorporating a quicker build-up of the Afghan Army, more civilian aid and ...
American officials had hoped instead that strong national institutions like the Afghan Army could protect the Afghan population, but the escalating violence ...
About half are in the Afghan Army, meaning they regularly are shipped off to some far-flung mountain pass on the Pakistan border to root out Taliban or ...
The Afghan Army is improving, but woefully small, and the police forces are corrupt and largely ineffective. The Karzai government has little control or ...
"The Afghan National Army will become a modernised army with Humvees and NATO weapons. This transformation will help usher their forces into the 21st ...
... war could not be won and that the goal was to shrink the insurgency so it was no longer a strategic threat and could be dealt with by the Afghan Army. ...
It's about reducing it to a manageable level of insurgency that ... can be managed by the Afghan Army." The brigadier's comments, together with those of Mr ...
WOOD: Well, I don't know which allies have been asked, but this is obviously a long-term goal of ours to try to build up the Afghan Army. ...
It's about reducing it to a manageable level of insurgency that's not a strategic threat and can be managed by the Afghan Army." The German cabinet also ...
The Afghan Army chief of general staff, General Bismillah Khan, also "happened" to be in Saudi Arabia at this time. Furthermore, as CNN put it, ...
"Despite the enhanced capabilities of both the Afghan National Army and the international forces, the security situation has deteriorated markedly," he ...
"Our objective is to expand the size of the Afghan Army significantly, and necessarily key to that is people to train them," he said. ...
"The faster we get the (Afghan Army) to the size and strength they need to be, the less they depend on us for providing security," said Pentagon press ...
Their unit was assigned to Afghan Regional Security Integration Command- East, (ARSIC-East) which is responsible for training the Afghan National Army in ...
He was captured in a joint raid last Wednesday by special forces and the Afghan National Army. "He has been connected to Mullah Berader Akhund, ...
"The faster we get the (Afghan Army) to the size and strength they need to be, the less they depend on us for providing security, and God knows we operate ...
It's about reducing it to a manageable level of insurgency that's not a strategic threat and can be managed by the Afghan Army. We may well leave with there ...
The bomber rammed his explosives-laden motorbike into a convoy of Afghan National Army forces patrolling Guzzara district. Guzara governor, Ghulam Mahbub ...
"Police forces and Afghan Army chased Taliban Insurgents and began a clean-up operation immediately," he said, "clash left one policeman and four Taliban ...
He said it was time to "lower our expectations" and focus on reducing the conflict to a level which could be managed by the Afghan Army. ...
10, Colonel Petronzio turned over security in the area to British and Afghan National Army forces. It was a victory in a war that has become more dangerous ...
AP LAS VEGAS (AP) OJ Simpson has been found guilty on a dozen charges including kidnapping and armed robbery, and could be behind bars for the rest of his ...
... to lure defectors from the Afghan National Army who had been trained by British and American forces by offering to double their £90-a-month combat pay. ...
So that task force has been going out and rebuilding bridges, building schools, building bases for the Afghan National Army. ...
For the first time ever, reservist soldiers found themselves alone in a hugely hostile area, fighting alongside the Afghan Army, getting close and personal ...
America has belatedly decided to support the expansion of the Afghan Army from 80000 to 130000 (still far smaller than Iraq's). Allies that do not supply ...
And McKiernan's request for 3500 trainers to help mold the Afghan Army and police "is being reviewed right now," the General said. To help plug the gaps, ...

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