The US, and others, are trying to train Afghans, and did try to train Iraqis, to fight insurgents. Relatively untrained, ill-equipped insurgents.

Now those insurgents have beaten the US and its' allies. And yet the training is designed to create a local version of the US forces. The same forces which got beat.

Didn't work in Vietnam, didn't work in Iraq, isn't working in Afghanistan. Even if the training "took", they would be sent into the field, and get beaten.

When will we learn? We don't want to learn. We want to keep expending expensive munitions, and keep losing so we can keep expending munitions.

Perpetual war. The capitalist's dream.