483 José A Fernández Alfaro Successes and failures of the implementation of ... Box 6: The most corrupt individuals in Afghanistan. 7. CONCLUSIONS This text has examined the creation and evolution of the ANSF, their current situation (personnel volume, type and quantity of equipment available, training, infrastructure,…), the main problems they have to deal with in order to evolve into a modern and professional armed forces (balanced ethnic distribution, illiteracy, inclusion of women, corruption, financing,…), as well as the main weaknesses/deficits from which they currently suffer (sustainment of operations, planning of aerial operations, execution of close air support, need for specialised personnel, casualty evacuation capability, C-IED capability, improvements in logistical support, ISR capability,…). We have been able to observe how the Afghan Army (ANA) has been created following a security sector reform process. Even though a conceptual theoretical frame on SSR didn’t exist in 2002, and neither was there enough real experience of the global implementation of this concept, we can state that between 2002 and 2009 (when the NTM-A was created), the strategies followed both by the United States as well as the other participating countries were the result of national positions and visions, and were followed purely in the interests of the objectives SET OUT by each one of these nations. For the United States, the objective was to endow Afghanistan with military capabilities.
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