traditionally, if you want to pay an afghan soldier, you pay his commanding officer in cash. then the commanding officer doles out whatever cash he the doles out whatever cash he thinks that soldier should get. totally ripe for corruption, right? soldiers don't know exactly what they're entitled to and commanders take whatever they can get around that. to get around that, the nato training mission in afghanistan has started paying soldiers by cell phone. although there isn't a robust banking system, just about every soldier can be counted on to have a mobile phone. when payday comes, afghan soldiers get a message containing the amount they're due to the paid and a code. they then take that to a mobile phone shop and the shop gives them their pay. the idea is to standardize and professionalize the military and cut commander officers out of an opportunity to steal from their troops. the corrupt commanding officers have adapted as well. rather than directly stealing cash from their soldiers on payday like they used to, now they've started stealing their sim cards out of their phones on
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