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Afghan Recruits Train for Guerrilla War

Sharon Behn

Published November 13, 2012

Inside this sprawling desert-like compound on the outskirts of Kabul, some 11,000 soldiers, non-commissioned officers and officers are training to join the Afghan army - an army that independent and U.S. government analysts are warning is not yet ready to take over the country's fragile security structure. VOA's Sharon Behn has more.

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