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Systemic corruption. he has also acknowledged while the afghan security forces are better equipped and trained than ever, much work remains to build their systems and processes and improve their leader development. i've offered my chain of command several options for our future lay-down in 2016 and beyond. it was envisioned in mid 2014 that we would transition to a normalized embassy presence by january 2017. that remains our planning assumption. since that time, much has changed. we've seen the rise of insurgents. mass a result i put forward recommendations to adjust this new environment whil...

Themselves actually had a far greater role in stopping some of the violence, it would have been worse. >>shepard: general, do they have the leadership to sustain a flying force? >>guest: i believe they do. if we look at what the nato training mission in afghanistan is about there is a talk about withdrawing troops but there will be a long-term relationship teen the united states, nato, and afghanistan. and in that capacity, we are going to are very were astride them not training and the leadership development we, key focus areas for the training mission in afghanistan, leader development and w...

Afghan officers earlier, they are very clear that is a very important part of making this -- of making the afghan national army grow. of course, it raises the question of whether or not this force size is sustainable for a government with the gdp this small. >> that is an issue. i think nato, the united states maybe including that particular -- >> in terms of the american public thinking about america's role here and our role as part of the coalition here, this nato training mission, do you think that what is happening now is sustainable in an afghan only environment? after coalition leaves, w...

>> certainly, speaking with afghan officers earlier, they are very clear that is a very important part of making this -- of making the afghan national army grow. of course, it raises the question of whether or not this force size is sustainable for a government with the gdp this small. >> that is an issue. i think nato, the united states maybe including that particular -- >> in terms of the american public thinking about america's role here and our role as part of the coalition here, this nato training mission, do you think that what is happening now is sustainable in an afghan only environmen...