Deutsche Welle, 24 December 2015
AAN’s Thomas Ruttig is quoted in this year ender at the German foreign radio’s website:
For its part, the German government wants to increase the number of troops it stations in Afghanistan to 980 next year. For Thomas Ruttig, co-director of the Afghanistan Analysts Network, this figure is by no means sufficient.
“To only slightly increase the number of soldiers in Afghanistan and to only do a little more than what had been done before is inadequate. It fails to address the real problems.” In addition to massive problems on the security front, the country is also afflicted by a raft of social, economic and institutional challenges, Ruttig said.
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This article was last updated on 9 Mar 2020
