Report - United States Department of Defense

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Both forces continued to struggle with NCO shortages, logistics, and various enabling
capabilities, though these issues were anticipated and are being actively addressed, as discussed
earlier in this report.
ANSF Self-assessment
ISAF is currently working jointly with the MoI and MoD to improve existing ANSF assessment
tools. As ISAF personnel in theater decrease and more ANSF units are fielded, the proportion of
ANSF units that are partnered or advised will decline. As ISAF starts receiving fewer and fewer
CUAT reports, it will require an additional system to inform leadership and the international
community on progress within the ANSF. The ANSF itself will need an Afghan-run selfassessment
system after 2014.
This new system is intended to augment and improve Afghan reporting systems currently used
by the ANA and ANP. The existing systems are the Readiness Reporting System (RRS), used
by the ANA, and the Force Readiness Report (FRR), used by the ANP. Neither system, as
currently designed, provides a sufficiently extensive assessment of the operational capabilities of
the ANSF. This is where improvement efforts are now focused. ISAF is also working to
augment the existing ANSF capability to validate these assessments - a crucial part of any
credible assessment system. These enhancements to the existing ANSF reporting systems require
Afghan assistance to be fully developed, and they also require the support of senior MoD and
MoI leadership to ensure successful implementation.
During the reporting period, minimal progress was made in reforming the ANSF self-assessment
system. However, a General Officer Steering Committee, and ANA and ANP Working Groups
comprising Afghan and coalition leaders were established.
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DoD has evaluated options for developing the ANSF more efficiently. In 2011, DoD conducted
a comprehensive analysis to examine options for the development of the ANSF, and identified
the minimum level of capabilities needed to establish and preserve security in Afghanistan.
Options for ANSF development should be consistent with the Lisbon NATO Summit timeline,
sufficient to support the core national security goals of the United States, and able to yield an
ANSF structure that is sustainable within the limits of Afghan human capital, economic capacity,
and the will of the international community to provide long term assistance.
The current planned force of 352,000 combined ANSF personnel has been deemed necessary to
complete the transition to full security responsibility to the Afghans by the end of 2014, and to
secure the country during the transition of power following the Afghan presidential election in
2014, while mitigating the effects of the U.S. and coalition partner drawdowns. In April 2012,
the U.S. Secretary of Defense and the Afghan Ministers of Defense and Interior committed to
conducting six-month reviews of the ANSF force structure and other needs. As Afghanistan
continues to become more secure and stable through 2015-2016, GIRoA, in coordination with
NATO and other partners will begin to refocus the ANSF toward enduring security roles, and it
24 This section is submitted consistent with section 1221 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012.
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