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Half-billion Dollars Fails To Establish Afghan Intelligence Capability

Monday, July 31st, 2017

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Half-billion Dollars Fails To Establish Afghan Intelligence Capability

Nearly half a billion dollars was spent developing a domestic intelligence capability for Afghanistan and the government has no way to know if the investment has paid off, according to the watchdog overseeing U.S. spending to rebuild the southeast Asian nation.The Defense Department has spent $457.7 million on two programs – Legacy Afghanistan and the Afghanistan Source Operations and Management (ASOM) – intended to develop an organic intelligence capability for the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF).After nearly 16…

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