Irregular Warfare Initiative·4 min read·hard
The Afghan Army: What Advisors Couldn’t See and Officers Couldn’t Change
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Cole Livieratos
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An Afghan officer reflects on the institutional failures that led to the collapse of the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces in 2021. The author argues that Western advisors focused on the wrong metrics, ignoring deep-seated structural issues and political abandonment.
The ANSF’s collapse was not a military defeat. It was the final, visible stage of an institutional failure that had been running for two decades.
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