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The paramilitary force is well trained and equipped, and has successfully defeated the Pakistani Army in multiple engagements. Inside Pakistan, the Shadow Army has been active in successful Taliban campaigns in North and South Waziristan, Bajaur, Peshawar, Khyber, and Swat.

In Afghanistan, the Shadow Army has conducted operations against Coalition and Afghan forces in Kunar, Nuristan, Nangahar, Kabul, Logar, Wardak, Khost, Paktika, Paktia, Zabul, Ghazni, and Kandahar provinces.

Vel, I'll consider them well trained and well armed when they defeat US forces on a regular basis in toe to toe combat. Other than those specific standards this "shadow army" is about as effective as a bunch of hotel security guards in Mumbai. To give them any more credit than that is to play into the propaganda aims of the enemy.