US myopicness and petty mindset was such that USSR trained pilots , available in thousands were not reemployed as regarded as Russian proxies ! While the USSR trained many thousand Afghans in USSR and Warsaw Pact states, US petty parsimony and narrowmindedness was such that hardly any Afghan was taken to the USA for courses. Instead characters who no one would employ in USA , and had no options were in Afghanistan training the Afghan Army. To give an example , the main project supervisor of Schools and Clinics program in Louis Burger was a male nurse ! To entrust billion dollar construction projects to a male nurse was ludicrous. My driver and many taxi drivers I met were outstanding war pilots trained for 5 years in USSR and with combat flying experience between 3000 hours to 15,000 hours ! Tanks were regarded as future threat and armour was hardly created or organised. The list is endless but will never be investigated like Louis Burgers billion dollar failure published by Washington Post as a “BUILDING PLAN FULL OF CRACKS” , LATE 2005 ! The simple issue was security ! US trainers were simply SCARED that they would get shot in the back ! SO THERE WAS HARDLY ANY TRAINING !!! I saw some of these contractors in Kabul when I was living about 110 metres from gate of Kabul Compound or camp Eggers ! These characters were here to do hole punching and make some bucks and not to create an army. So the real spirit was missing .

2. WHAT HAPPENED TO
AFGHAN NATIONAL ARMY
Major A.H Amin (Retired)
what happened to afghan national army
• August 2021
• DOI:
• 10.13140/RG.2.2.14621.44004
• Project:
• Military History
• Agha H Amin

3. Arm chair strategists are taking
great delight in criticizing Afghan
Army for collapsing in face of so
called Taliban onslaught.
A little knowledge of philosophy ,
inclineth man towards atheism as
the adage goes but , depth in
philosophy bringeth back man to
God ! This is how I will describe
these novices and critics !
The first point to be noted is that
armies are not created by US firms
like Military Professional Human
Resources International in a

4. decade but a long process
spanning centuries.
The real Afghan Army with
traditions dating back to 1719 or
1747 was destroyed by joint US
Pakistan design about 1978-1992
when a proxy war was financed in
Afghanistan.
Characters like Peter Tomsen
went out of their way to destroy
the real Afghan Army between
1989 and 1992 , just because it
was viewed as Pro Soviet or Pro
Russian entity.

5. Afghanistan had no army between
1992 and 2001.
In 2001 the USA initiated efforts to
create a new army but this
exercise had ulterior motives.First
the exercise was awarded to
contractors which was the first
blunder.
I saw some of these contractors in
Kabul when I was living about 110
metres from gate of Kabul
Compound or camp Eggers !

6. These characters were here to do
hole punching and make some
bucks and not to create an army.
So the real spirit was missing .
The USA preferred so called ex
Mujahids which was a bad idea.
The best Afghan officers like Ulumi
etc were never taken in the loop
as they were considered pro
Russian.
Many old Afghan Army officers
joined but these were sabotaged

7. by the Mujahid Mafia who were a
collection of USA, Pakistan or so
many other state proxies who had
destroyed their own country
between 1978 and 1992 !
The unkindest cut was delivered
by this character Ashraf Ghani
who between 2014 and 2019
summarily removed 90 % of pre
1992 Afghan Army officers , thus
totally destroying the Afghan
Army !

8. The incompetent US staff in Kabul
did not oppose this most IDIOTIC
and FOOLISH step !
Or perhaps it was US design that
Afghan Army should collapse
quickly so that the Taliban are
back in power and then they can
be sorted out properly !
The collapse of Afghan Army has
to be seen in the context of the
fact that FIRST the USA and its
proxy states DESTROYED the REAL
AFGHAN ARMY in 1978-92 ! Then
the RECONSTRUCTION of AFGHAN

9. ARMY by the USA was a SHALLOW
EXERCISE , MARRED by MASSIVE
CORRUPTION and a BAD TEAM .
Lastly no army can be created in
20 years . FINALLY Ashraf Ghanis
Removal of the REAL AFGHAN
ARMY OFFICERS BETWEEN 2014
AND 2019 WAS THE DEATH
SENTENCE OF AFGHAN ARMY !