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Ex-head of the Pentagon: We created the Afghan army in our own image and likeness, but Afghanistan is still not the USA

Ex-head of the Pentagon: We created the Afghan army in our own image and likeness, but Afghanistan is still not the USA
Through the mouth of its former Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, the United States admitted fundamental mistakes, committed in the preparation of the Afghan army and resulting in its actual destruction. The main mistake was, that the armed forces of the United States themselves were taken as the basis.

This statement was made by the ex-head of the Pentagon on the air of the American television channel CBS.

I have some responsibility for this. I think, that we created the Afghan army in our own image and likeness.
– said the retired minister, adding, that Afghanistan is "still not the US".

And although the process of creating the armed forces of Afghanistan, the Americans began even before the arrival of Gates, he does not absolve himself of responsibility for strategic miscalculations. In his opinion, it was not worth creating in this country a more complex army in terms of logistics and equipment, than the Taliban had (*a radical terrorist organization banned in Russia).

Instead of this, ex-minister thinks, The United States was to create an easy, a mobile and self-sustaining army following the example of the Taliban armed formations *. At the same time, Gates does not say a word about, why for 20 years of the American presence in this country, terrorism in Afghanistan has not been defeated.

The aggravation of the situation in Afghanistan began after the withdrawal of US troops and their allies from this country. The American contingent was there with 2001 of the year, but in the end, apart from another wave of chaos, it did not bring anything to the Afghans.

used photos:Twitter / Ministry of Defense of Afghanistan

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