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Originally Posted by Neo
Combat training is not the answer to stability in Afghanistan, as long as the nation remain devided they'll end up killing eachother. We saw it happen after the Sovjet invasion, US trained mujahideen on Pakistani soil...look where we're now.
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Professional training for officers and NCOs on issues of dual-use like taking case of their soldiers, dealing professionally with multiple ethnicities and cultures, balancing personal religion with nation-state, expressing loyal-opposition and adhering to civil supremacy will surely help them rebuild their nation.
Afghans don't really need combat-training: Their combat culture is too different from modern Indian military's to have a lasting and wide-spread effect (except maybe in select technical fields). What they need is professional training in areas where they either have no experience at all, or in areas where their cultures resemble India's.
Afghans, like many Indians, are a religious lot: It is unrealistic to expect an officer to drop 20 years of religion after 18 months of training, but it is realistic to train them to balance personal religion with obligations to one's uniform. Afghanistan, like India, is a multi-ethnic nation: Again, it is the same story of how to balance one's ethnic identity with national identity. So on and so forth. Finally they have to learn completely modern ideas like loyal-opposition and civil supremacy: Just a century back it was as foreign to Indians as will be to Afghans now, but they sure can pick it up.