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On the recordApril 6, 2009
I would say perhaps a brief period more than 30 years ago, for about 30 years, you could say that there was some sort of a functioning national army in Afghanistan, not previous to that and not since.
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Jim Webb
Democratic · Virginia

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Webb reflects on the historical challenges of Afghanistan's national army.

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