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Afghanistan: Holding the line
What are the challenges facing the Afghan army as it prepares to take over responsibility for the country’s security?
Published On 16 Dec 2012
As the 2014 withdrawal draws closer, and the US-led coalition prepares to hand power over to the Afghanistan National Army (ANA), filmmaker John D McHugh spent nearly a month in Afghanistan looking at the ANA’s training in Kabul and in Helmand. What he found was an infantry army ready to fight, but a belief amongst those soldiers that they lack the equipment and logistics to hold the line.
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