Afghan Army chief reveals future requirements, gears up to "fight alone" in 2014

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Andrew Elwell
Andrew Elwell
02/12/2013

"We live in a dangerous neighbourhood … you can pick your friends but you cannot pick your neighbours," General Sher Mohammad Karimi, the chief of the general staff in the Afghan National Army (ANA), told a delegation at the International Armoured Vehicles conference last week. General Karimi, who was educated at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and later forced into exile from Afghanistan before the Taliban government fell in 2001, presented the ANA’s armoured vehicle fu...
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