Afghanistan struggles to recruit soldiers. But it has more generals than the US, whose military is 3 times as large:http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/19/world/what-in-the-world/being-an-afghan-general-is-nice-work-if-you-can-get-it-and-many-do.html …
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2. The late poet Qahar Asi still has the best description of the "golden age of general-making," the chaos of the civil war/Mujahidin gov:pic.twitter.com/oXfb9WUtAJ
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3. At certain point over past decade Afghanistan prob had more generals than soldiers (army was being created scratch, but old Gs remained)
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4. The Palace says president
@ashrafghani retired about 150 generals in past two years, which was seen as welcome reform move. But:2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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did they also give you the general-making no for the past two years?
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