Tag: failure
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Newsweek – Failure of the Afghan National Police
Most of the recruits are rural villagers who have never been inside a classroom. Roughly 15 percent test positive for drugs, primarily hashish. Few know how to use a toothbrush or drive, and nearly 90 percent are illiterate. Since January 2007, upwards of 2,000 police have been killed in action—more than twice the figure for…
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Use of the AR-15 in Dirty / Dusty Environments
If you have been watching the news or reading any of the online forums lately, it would have been hard to miss all the talk about the M4 carbine and its “failure” in Afghanistan. I had a number of thoughts on this topic and had a draft written up for an article I was going…