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Afghanistan
First 600 of new Afghan Army graduate training
2002-04-03
  • The Afghan Army was reborn when 600 soldiers trained for six weeks by international peacekeepers graduated in a ceremony interim leader Hamid Karzai hailed as the death knell of warlords. The soldiers held their passing out parade, the first since a Moscow-backed Communist government collapsed 10 years ago. Karzai said the parade at an old Soviet military training ground on the outskirts of Kabul was one of the proudest moments of his five months in power.
    It's a start. Ten or twelve of those classes and the government will have some actual power, assuming they're not bumped off quicker than they can be graduated. They also need little essentials like a military academy to train professional officers, a logistics system, and all rest of the "tail" that keeps the infantryman infanting to good effect.
    • Posted by:Fred Pruitt

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