“the US wants India to step up its ongoing efforts to train the fledgling Afghan army.”
This is stupid. Why India? There’s a whole bunch of retired old guy American Marines and soldiers willing to train these guys. No problem...
WTH!!!
WILL WORK FOR C-RATS!! (Sans ham & lima beans. Keep the WWII canned biscuits, too! Just not my preference. (Burp! Belch!!!) thank you.)
Because, India has propped up the Northern Alliance since 1992
and has many allies among the Pushtuns, Tajiks and Uzbeks for the last 70 years
and Hindi is very close language to Pashtu and Farsi and Dari
and understands the tribal ramifications
In 1947, the Pashtun muslims did not want to join Pakistan and tried to join India and the cunning British manipulated their merger into Pakistan