Military Times/Medill News: It'll be 2024 before Afghanistan can fully fund its military, U.S. general says
The U.S. faces a years-long financial commitment in Afghanistan but must stay the course despite enduring another difficult year on the ground, Gen. John Campbell, who is ending his tenure as commander of coalition forces there, told lawmakers Tuesday.
“Afghanistan is at an inflection point,” Campbell said during testimony before the House Armed Services Committee. “I believe if we do not make deliberate, measured adjustments, 2016 is at risk of being no better, and possibly worse, than 2015."
NATO currently spends $5.1 billion annually in Afghanistan's military force of 352,000 — with $4.1 billion coming from the U.S. Campbell said the U.S. should continue to provide funding until at least 2020 and that Afghanistan will not be able to fully pick up that bill until 2024.
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3 comments:
The US military never leaves a country (Germany, Japan, Korea etc.) unless it's thrown out (Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan). It's "protecting our freedom."
*Feb 2, 2016: Campbell: "Afghanistan is at an inflection point"
*Oct 5, 2015: Campbell: “ Where they [ANA] were just a couple of years ago to where they are today is pretty astounding.
*Feb 12, 2015: Campbell: "[Resolute Support] represents a significant paradigm shift."
*Dec 29, 2014: Campbell: "What a change from the day that President Ghani took over."
*Dec 28, 2014: Campbell: "we can see that Afghanistan and our Coalition are at a critical turning point."
*Dec 23, 2014: Campbell: 2014 proved to be a time of critical transition in Afghanistan
* May 9, 2011: MajGen John Campbell: "But I really do think that as people look back, and they'll say 2010 was the year in Afghanistan. It's the year that we finally put more resources in here. We had the right leadership, the right strategy. And I think that was a turning point."
Don,
2 minutes with a calculator proves the BS being spouted. Afghanistan can't afford an army/ security forces larger than 40,000, and if the NATO standard of 1-3% of GDP were used, Afghanistan's Army and Airforce wouldn't exceed 10,000.
Afghan Security Forces currently number over 398,000 right now, so we will be subsidizing this dog forever.
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