By 2007, the situation in Afghanistan had reached a breaking point.
Afghans were becoming increasingly disillusioned with a
state-building process that had failed to deliver the peace
dividend that they were promised. For many Afghans, the most
noticeable change in their lives since the fall of the Taliban has
been an acute deterioration in security conditions. Whether it is
predatory warlords, the Taliban-led insurgency, the burgeoning
narcotics trade, or general criminality, the threats to the
security and stability of Afghanistan are manifold. The response to
those threats, both in terms of the international military
intervention and the donor-supported process to rebuild the
security architecture of the Afghan state, known as security sector
reform (SSR), have been largely insufficient to address the task at
hand. NATO has struggled to find the troops and equipment it
requires to complete its Afghan mission and the SSR process, from
its outset, has been severely under-resourced and poorly directed.
Compounding these problems, rampant corruption and factionalism in
the Afghan government, particularly in the security institutions,
have served as a major impediment to reform and a driver of
insecurity.
This paper charts the evolution of the security environment in
Afghanistan since the fall of the Taliban, deconstructing both the
causes of insecurity and the responses to them. Through this
analysis, it offers some suggestions on how to overcome
Afghanistan's growing security crisis.
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