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Default Afghan ANA SF: assessment

A NYT report, after being embedded with an Afghan Commando unit:http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/15/wo...it_ee_20130515

The two Taliban attacks within Kabul in 2012 were well covered on SWC, so it is interesting this US SF trainer's comment:
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The Afghan Army hadn’t performed that well in two previous tasks....Both counterattacks had to be heavily mentored. It came out O.K. in the end — but only after a lot of prompting from our side.
Now if this the rating given to an elite unit one wonders how basic kandaks fare:
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Although the unit based here is considered the most proficient in the country, allied officials said that it conducted 85 percent of its missions unilaterally, but still required coalition support for the other 15 percent.
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