An American government watchdog has found several serious flaws in the fifteen-year old US training mission in Afghanistan that has ultimately designed a force unable to provide security in the Asian country.
The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) issued a 283-page report, which concluded that the mission was a failure from the onset.
The report outlined several key problems with the Pentagon mission, which was plagued by a failure to understand the full “complexities and scale of the mission.”
The SIGAR report explained that Washington has failed to help Afghanistan in building proper security forces that could protect the country from “internal and external threats and prevent the country from becoming a terrorist safe haven.”
“Providing advanced Western weapons and management systems to a…