i me 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 corps of the afghan army numbered fewer than $300000.00 soldiers in total and they were spread across a vast expanse. they received us support in the form of ad 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 were 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 lack to sit carrion 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 asher. i've gone is government. i get more than $300000000.00 per year. went to paying salaries of afghan security, full staff members who didn't exist. in fact, accordin