458 Journal of the Spanish Institute for Strategic Studies N. 4 / 2014 and reintegration of ex-combatants (DDR); Italy, judicial reform; and the United Kingdom, counter-narcotics. Over these past 13 years, there have been many vicissitudes in the SSR process. Without doubt, the ANSF today are professionals, equipped and in full development, but with numerous limitations, as we will see. But they are indeed capable of fighting insurgency within the country. So, the SSR process has been completed and now is the time to evaluate its current effectiveness. 3. THE AFGHAN NATIONAL SECURITY FORCES (ANSF) At present, the ANSF are a novel element in Afghanistan’s current governmental structure and are structured in a way that is completely different from any armed structure that the country has seen in the past. The former military structures influenced by the British, Germans and Soviets during the XIX and XX centuries have completely disappeared. The current ANSF design is the result of the implementation of a western-style model of modern armed forces and police forces in a state that is very different from the nations involved in this fourth ANSF “remodelling”. Many factors were taken into account when setting up a stable and sustainable structure for the ANSF (threats they will need to address; ethnic distribution in line with the existing ethnic distribution in the country, making sure not to expressly favour any one group; deployment throughout Afghanistan’s territory,…). Box 1: Ethnic distribution in the ANA and ANP.13 The desire to create a fit-for-purpose ANSF was so great that even the foreign personnel that trained, formed and financed these units were given training before being deployed and taught the concept of cross-cultural awareness. This inter-cultural 13 Afghanistan Index. Tracking Progress and Security in Post-9/11 Afghanistan. Consulted in June 2014 under http://www.brookings.edu/about/programs/foreign-policy/afghanistan-index.
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