Gorilla's Blog

What if you created an army but found that 75% of it couldn’t be left on its own to do anything?

What if you created a police force but found that 88% of it couldn’t be left on its own to do anything?

What if an “elite” police group lost 75% of its members in a year?

What if 1 out of every 6 soldiers in the army and 1 out of every 8 policemen were absent without leave?

Why, you’d be describing Afghanistan, of course, and the miserable failure, after nearly 9 years there, to create an Afghan force that can take over losing a civil war to the Taliban.

Gorilla says: “War is training the trainers by other means!”