A US government audit to be released at the end of this month will cast doubt on the $25bn effort to build Afghan military and police forces, a blow to the cornerstone of President Barack Obama's exit strategy.
According to the audit, the standards used to appraise the Afghan forces since 2005 were woefully inadequate, inflating their abilities.
The Nato-led coalition's rating system measured forces based on such factors as training and equipment, rather than a metric that would more accurately assess their fighting abilities, the report from the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction concludes.
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