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The report highlighted that despite spending nearly $90 billion in the security sector, the security forces could not independently defend against the Taliban
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after the withdrawal of foreign troops.
The report noted that the reasons were administrative corruption and former president Ghani’s "ethnic appointment", and frequent changes in the army", which led to the weakened chains of command, morale and trust in the ANDFS.
In addition, the Afghan government failed to develop a national security strategy following the withdrawal of US forces; as a result, the Afghan army lost its ability to resist the Taliban forces and collapsed immediately after the pullout of the foreign troops.
Moreover, the wrong decisions by the Ghani and its government, young, educated, competent, and well-trained ANDFS personnel who had grown up under the American tutelage were ostracized, and their affiliation with the US was seen as a drawback, the report added.
After the collapse of the Afghan government, more than $7 billion in military equipment was left under Taliban control. This includes at least 78 aircraft worth $923.3 million, 9,524 air-to-ground munitions worth $6.54 million, over 40,000 vehicles, more than 300,000 weapons, and nearly all night vision, surveillance, communications, and biometric equipment provided to the ANDFS was left behind.
US hasty withdrawal led to collapse of Afghanistan government: SIGAR
[KhaamaPress] The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) has released a new report indicating that poor planning in the U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan contributed to the rapid collapse of the Afghan government.
The report released on Tuesday describes a hasty and uncoordinated pullout in 2021 without any long-term strategy. It also highlighted that since 2002, the United States had allocated nearly $90 billion in security sector assistance to the Afghan national defence and security forces (ANDFA), while the security forces could not defend independently after the withdrawal of the foreign troops.
The report added that after the collapse of the Afghan government, more than $7 billion in military equipment was left under Taliban
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control. "Yet, in August 2021, the ANDFS collapsed, paving the way for the Taliban to reestablish control of Afghanistan."
According to SIGAR, which cited a March 2022 Pentagon report to Congress, the ammunitions include at least 78 aircraft worth $923.3 million, 9,524 air-to-ground munitions worth $6.54 million, over 40,000 vehicles, more than 300,000 weapons, and nearly all of the night vision, surveillance, communications, and biometric equipment provided to the ANDFS was left behind.
Due to the ANDFS’s dependency on U.S. military forces, withdrawing all U.S. military personnel and dramatically reducing U.S. support to the Afghan forces destroyed the morale of Afghan soldiers and police.
The report noted that an agreement signed with the Taliban by the Trump administration in 2020 facilitated the unravelling "resulting in the sense of abandonment" in Afghan government forces and the people. The agreement expedited the collapsing process of the Afghan cops.
According to the report, there were several shortcomings on the part of the U.S. military; below are the most critical shortcomings:
- The U.S. pave the ground for the Afghan government to fall long before the August 2021 meltdown by failing to establish "an independent and self-sustainable ANDFS, despite 20 years and $90 billion of international support."
- The abrupt withdrawal of the U.S. military forces led to the destruction of the Afghan soldier’s morale and police, and the Doha agreement between the U.S. and Taliban in 2020 resulted in the sense of abandonment within the Afghan government and its military and police forces, speed up the country’s collapse.
- The 2020 withdrawal agreement with the Taliban limited the air strikes, which had proven to be the most "critical force multiplier" in fighting the Taliban. The ANDFS left without a key advantage in keeping the Taliban at bay.
- The U.S. also decided to withdraw on-site contract maintenance from Afghanistan in May 2021, which reduced the availability of aircraft needed to move stockpiles of U.S.U provided weapons and supplies around the country. This disrupted the delivery of ammunition, food, water, and other military equipment to sustain military engagement against the Taliban.
In addition, the Afghan government failed to develop a national security strategy following the withdrawal of U.S. forces. Instead, former president Ashraf Ghani frequently changed ANDFS leaders and appointed them regularly based on ethnicity. This led to the weakened chains of command, morale, and trust in the ANDFS
Young, educated, competent, and well-trained ANDFS personnel who had grown up under American tutelage were ostracized. The report said their affiliation with the U.S. was seen as a drawback.