Afghan War Blog

An Intel Advisor Mentoring ANDSF Reporting on the 'Train, Advise, and Assist' Mission.  The renewed emphasis and modest increas...

A Marine advisor with Task Force Southwest (TFSW) battle tracks with a soldier from the 215th Corps at Camp Shorabak, Afghanistan. (p...

Italian advisors 'fly to advise' (RS HQs, 20180122) Italian Advisors Fly to Advise.  Advisors from Train, Advise, and Assist C...

Nangarhar Province: A ISIS Enclave.  The Islamic State attempted to set up base areas in several provinces within Afghanistan; but it...

Training the ANA - Not so Much.  A recent visitor to Afghanistan provides us his views on how well the training program in Afghanistan ...

NATO Channel has produced a video about the " Sandhurst in the Sand " officer academy located near Kabul. The officer academy is f...

DynCorp International has been contracted by the U.S. Army to provide advisory and other support services to Afghanistan in the training of...

A total of 44 Afghan National Army (ANA) officers recently graduated from the Indian Military Academy . Read more in a news article by Khaa...

The Army is attempting to reform its educational system by introducing the Army University (AU). This new approach to education is ". ....

The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is conducting training for personnel who will soon deploy to Afghanistan on the Resolute Sup...

Pakistan, a neighboring country of Afghanistan that supports the Taliban through its intelligence service, has offered to train Afghan offic...

One of the largest training centers for the Afghan National Army (ANA) is at the Kabul Military Training Center (KMTC). The subjects taught...

A series of academic programs were recently conducted by NATO in Europe for the benefit of the Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF). NATO...

Every once in a while we hear about an Afghan from the ANA or ANP who, while attending a training course in the United States decides he h...

The Indian Ministry of External Affairs is providing entrepreneurial training to Afghan professionals through its ITEC fellowship program. T...

Armed Forces Network (AFN) has released a five-minute video of Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers receiving training on MRAPs. Military ...

The first class of cadets has graduated from the Afghan National Army Officers Academy (ANAOA) in Kabul, Afghanistan on September 24, 2014....

Photo by SPC Erik Warren, 3d Cav Regt The ISAF forces are quickly drawing down troop levels in Afghanistan. If the Bilateral Security Ag...

The Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness has published "Guidance on Common Training Standards for Se...

The Afghan War started in the Fall of 2001 when a small group of CIA agents and several Special Forces teams assisted the Northern Alliance ...