Commander of NATO Resolute Support forces and United States forces in Afghanistan, U.S. Army General John Nicholson walks during a change of command ceremony in Resolute Support headquarters in Kabul, Afghanistan, March 2, 2016.
Wall Street Journal: NATO Sees Need to Train Afghan Units
NATO command needs to have the ability to regularly advise and train units, alliance spokesman in Afghanistan said
BRUSSELS—Afghan security forces continue to have leadership problems, weaknesses that are the focus of the continuing NATO training mission, the alliance spokesman in Afghanistan said Thursday.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization command needs to have the ability to regularly advise Afghan corps, the units that oversee broad swaths of the country, as well as occasionally push training and advice down to Afghan kandaks, units of 600 soldiers, U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Charles Cleveland said Thursday.
“We think the biggest lesson we got out of the winter…and watching the beginning of this fighting season is the requirement to continue the train-advise-and-assist at the corps and police zone level,” he said in a telephone briefing with reporters in Brussels. “We have to be able to help at a low level,” he said.
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