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Billions Spent on Afghan Army Ultimately Benefitted Taliban
(AP-Military Times) Robert Burns - Built and trained at a two-decade cost of $83 billion, Afghan security forces collapsed so quickly that the ultimate beneficiary of the American investment was the Taliban, which captured an array of modern military equipment including guns, ammunition, helicopters and vehicles when they overran Afghan forces. In 2015, Dr. M. Chris Mason of the Army War College's Strategic Studies Institute subtitled his book, "Why the Afghan National Security Forces Will Not Hold." "Regarding the future of Afghanistan, in blunt terms, the United States has been down this road at the strategic level twice before, in Vietnam and Iraq, and there is no viable rationale for why the results will be any different in Afghanistan....State failure is a matter of time."