CIGI Senior Fellow Mark Sedra has written an article in the Parliamentary Brief outlining the obstacles and challenges facing the security sector reform process in Afghanistan. The challenges are many: a national police force described as a “basket case,” a corrupt and inefficient judiciary, a shadowy and recalcitrant National Directorate of Security, and an over-matched, 
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Can a strategic realignment save the Afghan SSR process?
By: Geoff Burt | Thursday, August 5th, 2010Afghan National Army (ANA) fragmentation impeding progress: report
By: Laura Holland | Wednesday, May 19th, 2010On May 12, the International Crisis Group (ICG) released a report entitled A Force in Fragments: Reconstituting the Afghan National Army, which assesses the progress made to date on reforming and rebuilding the ANA so that it becomes capable of assuming full responsibility for security in Afghanistan by 2015.
Overall, the report cites a lack of
CIGI’s Dispatches blog reviews report on ANA counter insurgency capability
By: Geoff Burt | Friday, May 14th, 2010I posted an article on CIGI’s other security-related blog, Dispatches from the Field: Perspectives on the Afghanistan Conflict, about a report by the Afghan National Army (ANA) Lessons Learned Center on the ANA’s Counter Insurgency (COIN) capability.
The report highlighted the importance of Operations Control Centers as a tool for coordination between the Afghan National Army
