Feb 13, 2012
U.S. Language Deficit in Afghanistan
Via Stephen Walt, the United States continues to suffer from a lack of proficiency in Afghanistan's languages. The Foreign Service has 18 Pashto speakers and only 2 are in Afghanistan. Even when DOD personnel are included, these figures fall several orders of magnitude short of what Chris Mason says are the thousands needed to operationalize the evolving U.S. strategy. And far less than the "5,000 U.S. officials [that] had learned Vietnamese by the end of the Vietnam War."
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