Spike In Afghan Police Casualties

The 135,000 Afghan police generally receive less training, more rudimentary equipment and lower pay than their colleagues in the army. Although soldiers drive around in armored Humvees, most police travel in pickup trucks, even though they are often called upon to operate in areas rife with insurgents. But U.S. military officials are hoping the police can become the primary long-term solution to Afghanistan’s woes. For now, they remain the weakest, and most regularly hammered, link in the war they envision as growing even as the more expensive army shrinks in the future. From here.