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Given the present state of the article, I think that the stub tag should be removed. Any objections? --RaiderAspect 11:33, 21 October 2005 (UTC)

I removed this line at the end of the article : "THIS IS SHIT, NATO FORCES, MAINLEY BRITAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GET IT RIGHT!!!!!!!" --Pluie De Sang 02:32, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Please do not erase any information becuase this article took me a long time to build from end of november to end of december. any one is welcome to add any other pics or info that is accurate but please do not erase nothing. Does anyone have any pics of the Afghan Army from the 60's or 70's pls add it to the article. I might find some and add it but feel welcome to add any of your pics Abdul916 18:54, 26 January 2007 (UTC)

To the person who added the good info and Afghan Army symbol can you under suppliers add Egypt and China becuase other than the Soviet Union those two nation supplied the Afghan military also later during Daud's last days becuase pakistan did not supply the military only certain militias that it was in favor of winning the civil war. Abdul916 17:34, 2 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Informal review

User:Buckshot06 has asked me to do an informal review of this article. Here are my comments.

I think that this is an article which is well worth expanding. The Afghani military is an important and interesting topic and the article has plenty of good material to build upon.
As a general comment, much of the article seems to have been written by someone who isn't a native English speaker and reads awkwardly at times.
As another general comment, the article needs more inline citations.
The history section refers to "Afghanistan's first organized army (in the modern sense)" but doesn't discuss the pre-modern Afghani armies. I think that a brief discussion of Afghani military tradition and culture would be worth including, as this seems to be important to the Afghani way of war.
The history section should discuss the role the Afghani military played in the war during the 1980s - what size was it, what did it do and was it effective?
I'm unclear on what happened to the military during the 1990s. Did it completely dissolve?
The 'Theatres of operations' section should be merged into the history section. The claim that an Afghani conquest of much of Pakistan was considered possible in the 1960s needs a strong citation.
The 'weapons and vehicles' section might need to be updated to discuss what the military is currently equipped with (including the Western equipment which has arrived since 2001)
A stronger conclusion section on the current state of the military and its future prospects might be worth including. --Nick Dowling 00:26, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Unreferenced, potentially untrue material

(Moved from main article)' Afghanistan's Government was mainly neutral for most of the Cold War during the 1950s-1970s. In 1967 Afghanistan was one of many nations who sent peace keeping troops to the Sinai Peninsula under United Nations mandate following the Six day war between Egypt and Israel.'

The official UN website for UNEF II, the force in question, does not list Afghanistan. Buckshot06 04:27, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

(Moved from main article)'In 1987 to 1990 President Mohammad Najibullah sent combat units to neighboring Tajikistan after the Tajik government requested assistance to fight guerillas and radical Islamic groups and keep the socialist soviet government from falling to Tajikistan's Mujahideen^{[citation needed]}. The USSR provided financial support to the Afghan force as it did not want to be militarily involved due to its past experiences in Afghanistan. The mission was a total disaster after fierce battles and operations, the Afghan military was forced to withdraw after loosing almost 5,000 men (even though the Afghan army won almost every battle), rising Islamic factions in Afghanistan who were almost at civil war with each other and were aimed to toppling the Afghan government in Kabul. This combat mission also contributed to weakening the Afghan army^{[citation needed]}.'

Nothing on the web referring to this expedition can be found - can certainly be reinserted if sources are provided, but seems unlikely, because the Soviet 40th Army was still in AFghanistan at the time and the state to the north was the USSR, not Tajikistan. Buckshot06 15:51, 27 October 2007 (UTC)

(Moved from main article)Afghan Prime Minister Daud Khan threatened to invade Pakistan in 1963 by massing up troops on the Durand Line border. Within 24 hours the residents of NWFP (North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan) were evacuating, fearing an Afghan blitzkrieg that was promised by the Afghan Prime Minister. However, by the time the first Afghan infantry crossed the Durand Line border, King Zahir Shah called off the invasion and proclaimed Afghanistan as a peaceful country to an alarmed United Nations, Iran, and Pakistan because of fears that the Afghan military would try to invade Karachi.^{[citation needed]} This would have enabled Afghanistan to have access to the Persian Gulf which would lead to a possible destabilization of the mid east region and Afghanistan no longer being land locked, annexation of half of South Asia by a Central Asian and Middle-Eastern country for the first time in many years. Due to these worries he announced the resignation of Prime Minister Daud. This move made President Daud to enlarge the armed forces to 200,000 strong, fearing a possible invasion by the Soviets because of this bold move.^{[citation needed]}