Auxiliary Force or National Army? Afghanistan's ‘ANA’ and the Counter-Insurgency Effort, 2002–2006

@article{Giustozzi2007AuxiliaryFO,  title={Auxiliary Force or National Army? Afghanistan's ‘ANA’ and the Counter-Insurgency Effort, 2002–2006},  author={Dr. Antonio Giustozzi},  journal={Small Wars \& Insurgencies},  year={2007},  volume={18},  pages={45 - 67},  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:143669542}}
Afghanistan's fifth effort to form a central army started in 2002, following the fall of the Taleban regime. Mainly run by the US armed forces, the formation of the so-called ‘Afghan National Army’ run into several difficulties, ranging from initially slow recruitment, low educational level of troops and officers, high attrition rates. As the new army began to take shape, it lacked many of the characteristics which had been associated by the promoters with a ‘national’ army. It also showed a… 

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