From The Washington Post:Obama Strategy May Need More Funds, U.S. Troops
Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the newly arrived top commander in Afghanistan, has concluded that the Afghan security forces will have to be far larger than currently planned if President Obama's strategy for winning the war is to succeed, according to senior military officials.
Such an expansion would require spending billions more than the $7.5 billion the administration has budgeted annually to build up the Afghan army and police over the next several years, and the likely deployment of thousands more U.S. troops as trainers and advisers, officials said.
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My Comment: To build and establish a professional army from scratch .... during wartime .... will be an undertaking that will be next to impossible ... at least for the next 5 to 10 years. The manpower, money, resources, and equipment that will be required will be enormous ..... and this does not include the work that will be necessary in changing the culture and behavior of an Afghan Army to that of a professional organization. When I read reports that 2/3 of the Afghan military is dependent and/or addicted to opium ..... it is not hard to see a picture of the challenges that lie ahead.