NahnCee:

There hasn’t been an Afghan Awakening because we’re trying to build a modern, Western-style, ethnically balanced National Army and National Police loyal to Kabul, the capital city of the newly-empowered Westphalian nation-state that monopolizes the legitimate use of force, so friendly Pashtun Irregulars, tribal levies, militias, and lashkars that might turn into a warlord’s private army are discouraged. We are trying to set up an organization to extend the writ of Kabul throughout the land, and that has never been done before.

The Brits tried to get a Helmand Awakening going, and Karzai pitched a bitch.

US general rejects UK militia plans

CLC’s Good, Arbakai Bad

No Sons of Afghanistan Need Apply

Pashtun Irregulars Disbanded

What Happened to the Afghan Security Forces?

Constructive Criticism from a Counter-Insurgent Supporter