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Afghan Training Focus: Reaching Transition And Making It Last, Gen. Says

By Cal Biesecker

Friday, June 10th, 2011

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There’s been “significant” progress in the NATO Training Mission-Afghanistan (NTM-A), but the goal is for enduring achievement once the transition of national security responsibility is passed to the Afghan government by the end of 2014, the commander said. “It has to last,” just a transition is not enough, said Lt. Gen. William Caldwell, commander of NATO NTM-A, and commander of Combined Security Transition Command, Afghanistan. Questions he continually asks include: “how to achieve transition and make it last, and…

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