An Afghan Army recruiting office in Kandahar is open for business, but few of the region's young men have been eager to join the military. Kuni Takahashi for The New York TimesNew Way To Count Afghan Army Recruits Reveals Old Problem -- New York Times
KABUL, Afghanistan – Army recruiting in southern Afghanistan – the spiritual homeland of the Taliban — is tricky at best, deadly at worst.
In the all-volunteer army, southern Pashtun representation has hovered around 2 or 3 percent, sometimes dipping lower, under NATO and the Ministry of Defense’s former method of counting. But this summer, as modest improvements began to erode, the ministry, in consultation with the NATO Training Mission responsible for piecing together the army, suddenly changed the way it calculates southern Pashtun representation, going from a geographical approach to a tribal method. On paper, the results were surprising, showing a marked increase. But they were also arguably misleading.
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