National Defence committee  There are four areas that we have led on: the Kabul military training centre, the consolidated fielding centre, the regional military training centre in the north, in Mazar-e-Sharif, and the signals school. All of them have reached a capability milestone level one bravo, which in

National Defence committee  On the issue regarding pay, the Afghans are expected to pay $500 million a year to their own security as of 2018, their contribution to the Afghan Security Forces Fund. Until then, there are the international donations through the ASFF, the Afghan Security Forces Fund.

National Defence committee  Thank you very much for that question. It's always a point of discussion. I would say that at the ministerial level, the two ministers themselves—Minister Patang, the Minister of Interior, and Minister of Defense Mohammadi—are politicized. Very clearly, they are political anima

National Defence committee  It's very interesting, the word “confidence”. The leadership in Afghanistan right now views the development of confidence in the Afghan National Security Forces as their centre of gravity, as their main effort. In our work with the Afghans, in particular, in my experience, with