A WISH LIST FOR AFGHANISTAN
Seeds are being planted all over Afghanistan, and it will be up to the people and the country’s new unity government to demonstrate to the rest of the world that Afghanistan can be counted on as an equal partner to promote and ensure regional stability.
Support Mission forces to complete their assigned mission. After 14 years of contin- gency operations, Afghanistan is showing some modest gains in its ability to develop its own security forces, but major chal- lenges persist: an active insurgency and unfavorable economic conditions, to name just two. Accordingly, the coalition contin- ues to assume relatively constant funding levels in the near term.
Te main effort remains the training, advising and assisting of Afghan security institutions, while concentrating on eight
“essential functions” as part of the Reso- lute Support Mission:
Essential Function 1: Multiyear budget- ing and execution of programs Advising efforts focus on ANDSF resource management, helping the Afghans meet their sustainment require- ments, aligning budgets with programs and executing within available resources.
Essential Function 2: Transparency, accountability and oversight Assistance in this area focuses on help- ing the Afghan government establish transparent and accountable fiscal stew- ardship, demonstrating the will to fight corruption.
Essential Function 3: Civilian governance of the Afghan security institutions Emphasis here is on the importance of helping Afghanistan establish effective disciplinary systems in accordance with the Afghan constitution and domestic laws. A key effort is the prevention of gross violations of human rights.
Essential Function 4: Force generation Goals include the recruitment, retention and training of qualified Afghan defense and security forces
Essential Function 7: Intelligence Assisting Afghan forces to develop intelligence capabilities
and processes;
emphasizing capability integration, train- ing and self-sufficiency is a priority here. Transitioning from paper-based to digital systems is part of this.
Essential Function 8: Strategic communication Critical to this effort is the Afghan security and defense forces’ ability to communicate effectively with the popula- tion and the international community to engender support and confidence, and to counter insurgency influences.
to meet manpower
requirements, encouraging employment through merit-based selection to maximize potential and operational effectiveness.
Essential Function 5: Sustainment Efforts in this area aim to enable effective demand-based systems to meet strategic and operational requirements in facili- ties management, maintenance, medical support and logistics. Responsiveness to end-user needs is a key component of this.
Essential Function 6: Strategy and pol- icy, planning, resourcing and execution Te desired end state in this arena is defense and interior ministries capable of coordi- nating, planning and executing effective joint and combined campaigns in support of national-level security objectives.
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Te goal of every entity in this POM pro- cess was to clearly articulate program requirements in support of Afghanistan’s national security framework. (See Table 1.) Te Ministry of Defense’s national mili- tary strategy and the Ministry of Interior’s strategy served as guiding documents for specific plans that addressed the develop- ment of the Afghan National Army and the Afghan National and local police. Doing so was important not only for the government of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, but also for the international community, since the vast majority of funds for the ANDSF still come from the United States and NATO donor nations.
Integration, transparency and discipline were guiding principles throughout the requirements development process: inte- gration through the direct involvement of Afghan counterparts in the process, transparency through shared resourcing decisions with all parties involved, and discipline through the systematic pri- oritization of requirements, adjusting the program to existing fiscal realities.
TO BUILD A BUDGET After establishing a baseline for Afghan end strength and operational readiness,
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