Biden: U.S. & partners "trained and equipped nearly 300,000" Afghanis
(www.usnews.com)https://www.usnews.com/news/world-report/articles/2021-08-18/from-300-000-to-a-few-hundred-the-collapse-of-afghanistans-armyWhen asked to account for any of those forces on Tuesday, following the stunning fall of Kabul to the Taliban, the Pentagon referenced only 500 local troops at the airport in Kabul that were helping provide security.
Multiple explanations exist for the chasm between those two appraisals of the soldiers and federal police that American troops and their NATO allies spent 20 years and billions of dollars attempting to stand up.
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