US Military Now Classifying Key Data About Afghan Army Strength
An oversight office charged with keeping tabs on reconstruction efforts in Afghanistan reported this week that the Pentagon is withholding from the public critical information about the US mission in the war-torn country. In a quarterly report released on Monday, The Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) said that certain data about the Afghan army and police was, for the first time, shielded from public view. “The newly classified or restricted data include important measures of Afghan National Defense and Security Force (ANDSF) performance…