Legion Academy of Afghanistan
Train Let Afghans do the dirty work and thank you for it. America is doing exactly that. Afghans are being trained at the Legion Academy to take over when NATO withdraws. Only time will tell how sound a plan this is.
INDEED A jolly good idea to train Afghans to fight their own war against the Islamist terrorists like the Taliban and the Al Qaida. The able bodied Afghans trained well by the battle hardened American green berets or other specialists will make winning the war their primary objective. Moreover, when the NATO forces withdraw from the war-torn country as per plan, they will have someone to pass on the baton to. The noble mission will be carried on.
Above all, the withdrawing forces will not suffer from a feeling of guilt that they were forced to hand over the country to their enemy on a silver platter. Of course, besides the terrorist organisations
Pakistan is also eagerly waiting for the NATO to withdraw so that they rule Afghanistan and run a proxy administration through Islamist terrorists. The Pakistan Army gave birth to the Taliban and trained them to fight against the Soviet army initially but now their own protégé have turned their guns on the trainer-cum-protector.
Indeed, one faction of the Taliban is determined to fight against the Americans and Europeans only and call it a religious war of Muslims against Christians. Jihad - that is the religious name to the see-saw battles fought by the Taliban against the NATO. In the bargain, quite a few Muslims are killing Muslims too. Never mind, the Jihadi Taliban says because everything is fair in love and war. In this case Love does not exist anywhere, so it is war, war and war.
TRAINING IS TOUGH
The Legion Academy gives a tough time to trainees. In a battle, a soldier always faces tough situations. If he is properly trained, he will take the tough battle in the normal stride of war. The army encourages greenhorns by dinning into their ears an age-old saying "When the going is tough, the tough get going".
This way the raw recruits do not feel bad that the training is a rigorous one. After a couple of weeks, the recruits start enjoying their training. It is always at the back of their minds, "the more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war” and, frankly speaking, no soldier worth his name wants to bleed in war. Thus the toughest training is accepted by the recruits as an antidote to the poison of blood-letting in war.
Thus the two week crash course puts recruits through the basics of fighting a war. The beneficiaries are the Afghan soldiers, the Police personnel, Intelligence officers and the likes of them. The drill sergeants are tough ones and spare no one. Of course, there is no corporal punishment during this training but all sergeants employed for putting Afghans through their paces are strict believers in the old philosophy of teaching-learning process and keep on using the phrase "spare the rod and spoil the child". Strictness in training is the hallmark of sergeants selected to train the new complement of the Afghan army charged with the onerous duty of keeping the Islamist terrorists at bay.
AFGHAN NATIONAL ARMY
The heavy duty of keeping Afghanistan together and free from terrorism will devolve on the Afghan National Army after the NATO forces withdraw to their respective countries. The personnel for the new-fangled army have been chosen from those areas of Afghanistan that are notorious for terror activities lie the Helmand province,Maiwind district of Kandahar province and so on.
There is no point in selecting soldiers and officers from peaceful places like Kabul because the personnel from there wouldn't know where the shoe pinches. The hardened soldiers from the southern Afghanistan make good soldiers because they have been in the thick of anti-terror operations and, therefore, talk tough and act tough. In any case, to fight and defeat terror, one does not need the old Chocolate-crème soldiers but battle hardened guys. Luckily, the Sergeants chosen to lead and guide the raw recruits are themselves old hands playing this sort of game against Islamist terrorism. The sergeants cannot be fooled or taken for a ride. It is, therefore, believed by one and all that the selected personnel will deliver the goods.
The Legion Academy is raring to go. The staff is keen to see for themselves that the cadets chosen and trained by them show some positive results on the battle field. The taste of pudding lies in eating it. Unless the battle and the mock drill of ambush and other enemy activities are gone through, it would be difficult to assess their battle-worthiness and their morale under difficult circumstances. The Battle Physical Efficiency Test is administered in the peace time by friendly instructors.
Not so in this case. Thus it would be easier to assess the Fitness for War of the troops trained now for desert warfare, mountain warfare and counter-insurgency. The taste of pudding lies in eating it. The thoroughness or otherwise of the training will be tested once the terrorists and the new National Afghan Army soldiers come face to face with guns blazing and both trying to kill each other.
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