The ANSF: Where State-Building & Nation-Building Meet Posted by Patrick Barry

A little while ago, Sen. Sessions asked a very good question about whether "we are overly committed to a centralized authority," seeing local militias a security alternative to the Afghan National Security Forces.General McChrystal cautioned against thinking of local militias as a better security off-ramp than the Afghan army. 

This indirectly gets at the conversation Michael and Spencer were having over whether the U.S. is nation-building in Afghanistan.  Part of McChrystal's concern is that Afghanistan's history of conflict is related to support - either internally based or externally based - for armed security forces un-tethered to any kind of central authority. McChrystal is understandably apprehensive about feeding  such conflict drivers.  In his view, training the ANSF represents a way to address the country's security deficit, while reinforcing, not undermining, a sense of national unity. 

Putting it this way makes it tough to figure out where training Afghanistan's security forces slides into the state-building\nation-building continuum.  A case could be made for either classification. Increasing an Army's size and professionalism could easily be described as a capacity-building, or state-building activity.  But as McChrystal said, it's not enough for security forces to be skilled.  They also have to share a bond or an allegiance that keeps 'them from moving around the battlefield,' becoming 'something predatory.'  If the U.S. is reinforcing Afghan national identity as a check against faction, that seems like the place where state-building could pretty quickly turn into nation-building.

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