The Pentagon and the Afghan government, in a move intended to increase the size of Afghan security forces without spending too much money, are poised to approve a new irregular combat force, with estimates it could number in excess of 20,000 fighters.
Both groups have dispatched delegations to India to examine the structure of the Indian Territorial Army, an irregular force created for deployment in certain areas where the regular military’s presence would be unpopular.
Afghans are unlikely to welcome this idea, however, because the US already tried this once with the establishment of the Afghan Local Police (ALP), a militia force made up of US-funded warlords given police powers and little to no oversight. Unsurprisingly, this quickly became a flurry of extortion rackets and other widespread abuse.
Human Rights Watch was quick to criticize the proposal, noting that the irregular forces have proven hard to control in the best of circumstances, and saying the Afghan government needs to worry more about increasing oversight on the troops they already have.
The US could move troops into Afghanistan to later strike west into Iran. They have assets in eastern Syria which could always strike east into Iran, and that likely includes ISIS. They are Israel’s bitch just waiting for that order to jump.
Seems like they might be trying to relive past glories in Central America.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Defense_Patrols_(Guatemala)#War_crimes
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrullas_de_Autodefensa_Civil
Someone I talked to in Guatemala that lived in this period said the Guerrillas, the Guatemalan military, and the Patrullas were constantly getting into confrontations with each other. I sort of extrapolated, or maybe just imagined, that the Civil war ended because both the Military and the Guerrillas wanted to stop things before the Patrullas became too powerful.