The Hashish Army (2009): As Barack Obama announces more US troops to train the Afghanistan army, John D McHugh reports on how US soldiers view their Afghan counterparts as ill-disciplined, badly led, and with a crippling taste for hashish.
'It's like having 26 kids' says one officer. Building up the Afghan army is one of the mainstays of the US exit strategy. But after several years of training, they still lack basic soldier skills. 'You can't really call it an army' one Afghan admits. Populated by young apathetic drifters, the Afghan army needs as much help as it can get against a well-trained, highly motivated enemy.
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