Exhibit 1265 · Inspector general lessons-learned report
Reconstructing the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces: Lessons from the U.S. Experience in Afghanistan (SIGAR 17-62-LL)
The U.S. government was ill-prepared to conduct SSA programs of the size and scope required in Afghanistan.
SIGAR lists 12 key findings on the U.S. experience building the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces. It states that the United States devoted over $70 billion (60 percent) of its Afghanistan reconstruction funds to the ANDSF through 2016 and continues to commit over $4 billion per year.
- Source
- Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction
- Date
- September 2017
- Quoted from
- Summary, key finding 1, PDF p. 11
- Grade
- Primary record
- Document
- https://www.sigar.mil/pdf/lessonslearned/SIGAR-17-62-LL.pdf
- Accessed
- 2026-11-10
- Cited by
- Findings citing this exhibit
- Note
- SSA is security sector assistance. Key finding 5 on the same page reads 'The United States failed to optimize coalition nations’ capabilities to support SSA missions in the context of international political realities.' The sigar.mil host did not resolve on 2026-11-10; read from a Wayback capture.