[ClumsyPilot]

> The Pentagon has awarded a 48-million-dollar contract to train the nucleus of a new Iraqi army to Vinnell Corporation, a US firm which also trains the Saudi National Guard.

Were similar contracts in place for training Afghani Army? Maybe we should get a refund?

I found shocking how western media just declared Afghani army as incapable and closed the chapter. Someone was in charge of this program for 20 years. Someone had oversight of billions spend. Were western contractor facilitating corruption? Was this a shocking failure of western management?

The results are worse than Russian army procurement where millions of uniforms just go missing!

[bombcar]

Nobody wants to talk about training the Afghans for 20 years and having them decide to be citizens or Taliban the moment we left.

Training went well, but why would they bother once we're gone?

[ClumsyPilot]

have youread nothing about the fact that government was paying salaries of soldiers that did not actually exist, and in fact their commanders were pocketing it.

This whole 'afghans decided not to fight' is really convenient. Like blaming a plane crash on pilot error - nothing to investigate, no defects to correct, the only one at fault is already dead.