{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Kabul Press","provider_url":"https:\/\/www.kabulpress.org","title":"Taliban surges troops while the West surges Generals ","author_name":"Matthew J. Nasuti (Former U.S. Air Force Captain)","width":"600","height":"400","url":"https:\/\/mail.bamyanpress.com\/article39416.html","html":"\u003Ch4 class='title'\u003E\u003Ca href='https:\/\/mail.bamyanpress.com\/article39416.html'\u003ETaliban surges troops while the West surges Generals \u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/h4\u003E\u003Cblockquote class='spip'\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ENATO has confirmed to this author that it has 130 Generals and Admirals in Afghanistan.  For NATO, that amounts to one General for every 1,000 soldiers, a stunningly high number of senior officers.  In contrast, the U.S. military has a total of 650 Generals and Admirals to manage a combat force of 1,420,000.  That amounts to one General for every 2,185 soldiers.  If NATO were to adopt the American model, it would have no more than 55 Generals in Afghanistan.  Even that number is far too (\u2026)\u003C\/p\u003E\n\u003C\/blockquote\u003E\n"}