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House panel to study foreign military training efforts
2015-10-20
[Military Times] The House Armed Services Committee is looking into the Defense Department's foreign military training programs in response to what the panel's chairman sees as mounting frustrations over the mixed results of recent efforts.
Yes, look into it with the Defense Department. There must be someone there who can be blamed or held responsible. No need to discuss the issue further with our well funded friends in McLean.
Rep. Mac Thornberry, R-Texas, said the oversight work will include a series of public and closed-door meetings with Pentagon officials in the days to come. The first hearing will be Wednesday, with views from outside experts on the successes and failures of the current work.

"We can't do everything ourselves, so somebody has to be out there helping us to do it," Thornberry told reporters after a recent hearing on U.S. operations in Afghanistan. "So we're going to try and work with others."

At that hearing, Army Gen. John Campbell, commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, told lawmakers that even with a focus in recent years of training local security personnel to take over the fight, those forces are still years away from being able to operate completely on their own.
Posted by:Besoeker

#1  Sun Tzu and the concubines comes to mind.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2015-10-20 14:46  

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