well ha, during his 2nd tor, jason dempsey was an advisor to the afghan military. his job was to train them to fight against the taliban. bought the 6 call of the afghan army number fewer than 300000 soldiers in total. and they were spread across a vast expanse. they received, you asked support in the form of an power and intelligence. one of the biggest mistakes we made is we said, well, we're going to create an army, looks like us. and what we're doing was we're creating a national army for a nation that simply didn't exist. there are a lot of things that make our army effective, impossible things like effective bureaucracies, the rule of law, black, a sectarian violence literacy, a force that's able to adapt and learn and use a lot of different technologies. those things don't exist in afghanistan. the fight against the taliban exposed the chronic corruption and mismanagement of then president ashur, i've gone is government i get more than $300000000.00 per year, went to paying salaries of afghan security for staff members who didn't exist. in fact, according to

this jason dempsey is a former army major who served in afghanistan for nearly 2 years. during his 2009 deployment, he fought the taliban in kuna. vardek caused and packed the provinces in eastern afghanistan, the piano span in 2009. we were very good at targeting hunting and killing, but we were completely 100 percent lost when it came to the politics of the fight who we were actually fighting. and then what the end game was, there's a lot of morphing between well, is the priority to or is our new enemy? is our sworn forever enemy? now the taliban, we just pain them all with one broad brush. they were the enemy. those easiest thing to do and then count to success as taking the fight to them without ever thinking about well, why do they keep coming? well the most, i ha, during his 2nd talk, jason dempsey wasn't adviser to the afghan military. his job was to train them to fight against the taliban. bought the 6 call of the afghan army, none but fewer than $300000.00 soldiers in total. and they were spread across a vast expanse. they received, you asked support in the form