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Afghan losses, Haiti killing spark new questions about U.S. foreign military training

Afghan losses, Haiti killing spark new questions about U.S. foreign military training

Afghan losses, Haiti killing spark new questions about U.S. foreign military training
Jul 22, 2021 2 mins, 11 secs

The Pentagon has invested two decades of time and untold manpower to train Afghan security forces, while American taxpayers have spent tens of billions of dollars providing direct financial assistance and military equipment for the effort.

That troubling reality, critics say, is the flawed premise that undergirds a massive, multiagency program to train and equip foreign military forces around the world.

Despite noble intentions, it has proved virtually impossible to transfer American war-fighting spirit and skill to foreign troops even with much of the same equipment, similar instruction and nearly identical physical regimens.

foreign military training occasionally rears its head elsewhere for the wrong reasons.

military training as part of Washington’s support for the Latin American war on drugs.

training programs for the actions of a handful of foreign soldiers?

Daniel Davis, a senior fellow at the Washington foreign policy think tank Defense Priorities who worked on a military team that trained Iraqi forces after the 2003 U.S.

spent vast amounts of money training Iraqi security forces, but huge swaths of the country fell under the control of the Islamic State group after a major drawdown of American troops a decade ago under President Obama.

has spent at least $88 billion directly on training, equipping and funding Afghan military and police forces, according to figures compiled by The Associated Press.

Allied governments have also set up extensive training programs for Afghan security personnel to complement the U.S.

Hundreds of thousands of Afghan security forces have taken part in the training.

Nevertheless, the Taliban have scored significant victories over Afghan security forces in recent months.

Reports said some regular Afghan troops abandoned their posts and ceded U.S.-supplied weaponry and supplies to the advancing Taliban forces.

“The Afghan security forces have the capacity to sufficiently fight and defend their country.

And we will continue to support the Afghan security forces where necessary,” Gen.

In 2020, the Defense Department reportedly trained at least 31,000 foreign military students and had military advisers in more than a dozen foreign nations.

In other instances, military training programs have been connected with tragedy.

The incident sparked an outcry on Capitol Hill and led to a full-scale Pentagon review of all foreign military training programs.

Additional screening protocols of foreign military students are now in place.

policymakers imposed new rules on foreign training programs.

In the late 1990s, Congress tightened foreign military training with the Leahy Law, named after Sen.

Colombian forces have received a great deal of U.S.

officials confirmed last week that at least six former Colombian soldiers with American military training were involved in the assassination of the Haitian president

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