However, it notes, an ever increasing number of ANSF operatives trained by US instructors is defecting to the Taliban to share their newly acquired knowledge to earn the living.
In Iraq, the US spent $25 billion training and equipping a large Iraqi force, which then threw down its weapons and abandoned two key cities, Mosul and Ramadi, to Daesh militants, according to an earlier report by Reuters.
Between 800 and 1,000 Islamic State fighters defeated 30,000 Iraqi troops.
USA Today has also released inconvenient information noting that the Pentagon spent 384 million dollars out of initially planned $500 million program on the preparation of 150 fighters, instead of the almost 3,000 militants it originally planned to train.
The Hill website however reported in March that Army Gen. Lloyd Austin requested permission from the administration to restart the halted program.
Pentagon had also spent over 42 million dollars for just two months on training of the so-called “moderate opposition fighters” in Syria. Half of all the fighters prepared by the US were immediately captured by Jabhat al-Nusra, New Eastern Outlook quotes CBS as reporting last August.
The website acknowledges other failures of the US military to achieve the stated objectives of its equip-and-train programs in hot spots all over the world.
“Therefore, it won’t be an exaggeration to state that those programs have become a gold mine for certain corrupted officers of the US armed and intelligence forces,” the website states.
Numerous journalist investigations, such as the ones that were carried out by The Guardian and Bloomberg, the website says, serve as a testimony to the fact that the US has unfortunately become the most corrupt state in the world, where money is being stolen from taxpayers daily, it therefore concludes.
