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Using the information There are many differences between the information presented here and standard sources such as the IISS Military Balance and Jane’s World Armies. We do not use any standard sources in compiling our information, as we do not want our data contaminated. Orbat.com has data on 3 levels that are really ranges. Graphically the levels can be represented as:
At the left end, there is Open Source Information such as might be found in any commonly available public source. At the right end is Top Secret information such as can be found only in the files of an intelligence agency. OSI can be of many kinds. For example, we have people who read local newspapers, telephone directories, tender offers and so on. That is Open Source Intelligence, but it is of a different kind than picking up IISS’s Balance. We call that deep OSI, and it would rank in the left half of the green Level 2 Deep OSI bar and would to some extent overlap the right half of the Level 1 OSI bar. Then we have people who talk to military people, keep an eye on installations and so on. Usually such information is rated intelligence level, but we overlap it with the right half of Level 2 Deep OSI because usually it is no secret from the locals who live in military communities or deal with the military. This sort of information – where a particular brigade is located, for example, is also fairly well known in the military itself. Level 3 Intelligence similarly has a range. You should treat the information given here as Level 1 OSI, left half of the yellow bar. But that doesn’t mean there is no input from the green and blue bars. For example, everyone lists India as having 4 RAPID divisions (partially mechanized). But there are more, and as yet that information is in the blue bar. We nonetheless include it in this publication. Reliability Index
You will find relatively few Excellent orbat here. Generally we reserve the rating for western countries that publish most orbat data. And you may be surprised to see that many orbats presented as authoritative in other publications are marked as Poor or Very Poor. We’d suggest you follow our ratings if accuracy of the data is important to you. Equipment Unlike other publications, we don’t pretend to a non-existant precision in equipment numbers. Good equipment tallies are very hard to come by; even more difficult is telling what percentage of equipment is operational, in reserve, or just junk. |
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reliablity index 4 (poor) Personnel
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5 regional commands
Kabul RC
Kandahar RC [Active] South[1]
Gardez RC [Active] East
Mazar-i-Sharif [Planned] North
Herat [Planned] West
3 corps [more to be activated][2]
Central Corps [Kabul]
Eastern Corps [Gardez]
[Kandhar]
4 brigades [at least] [at least 5 more planned]
3 with Kabul Corps
1 with Gardez Corps
As of January 1, 2005, the Afghan National Army has:
16 infantry battalions
1 mechanized battalion
1 tank battalion
Battalions range from 200-400 in strength.
Other Nation/Multinational Forces
United States [about 20,000] including two brigades and at times 1 US Marine Corps
Battalion Landing Team on temporary duty][3]
ISAF [NATO force confined to Kabul] about 7,000
Subsequent to the US invasion and overthrow of the Taliban regime, the warlord armies were consolidated nominally into seven corps of varying size, plus 9 independent divisions. The armies are being increased brought under central control, though this is a lengthy and complicated process. These armies are being slowly deactivated and most soldiers being retrained for the ANA. On incomplete information we believe that two corps HQ and approximately 6 divisions of the warlord armies have been disbanded; one more division should have disbanded late 2004.Note: divisions can consist of as few as 1500 soldiers.
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list below is Orbat.com’s best mid-range estimate of equipment operational/in
useable condition and should be read with caution. Equipment as may be with
warlord armies is not counted, but is unlikely to be in significant numbers or
of much operational use.
100 MBT; T-54/55/62 series; 40 known operational
50 AIFV, BMP-1/2
100 APC, BTR series; 40 known operational
Small numbers of PT-76, BRDM may be available
40 Field guns/howitzers; 15 known operational
Unknown number of MRL
Unknown number of AD guns
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1 Rapid Reaction Mechanized Brigade
6 reserve infantry brigades (cadre only)
1 Tank battalion (reserve)
1 Artillery Battalion
Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) (600)
Integrated Defense University
National Training Center
Logistics Command (1000)
Logistics Brigade
Transportation Regiment
Medical Support Battalion (Central Military Hospital)
Other supporting elements
Equipment
MBT
100
ARTY
150
AD
60 37mm, 57mm
APC
80 Type-531 (PRC)
Reliability index 4 (poor)
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6 Military Areas
Northern
Western
South Western
South Eastern
Eastern
Central (Algiers)
Northern Military area (coast & Tunisian border)
One Armored Division
One Independent Infantry Brigade
Four Independent Infantry Battalions
Six Air Defense Battalions
Western Military area (Moroccan border)
One Mechanized Division
One Independent Infantry Brigade
Three Independent Infantry Battalions
Two Air Defense Battalions
Two Desert Companies
South Western Military area (Mauritanian/Mali border)
One Independent Infantry Brigade
Two Independent Infantry Battalions
Four Desert Companies
South Eastern Military area
(Niger border)
Three Independent Infantry Battalions
Two Desert Companies
Eastern Military area (Libyan border)
One Independent Armored Brigade
One Independent Infantry Brigade
Three Independent Infantry Battalions
Two Air Defense Battalions
Four Desert Companies
Central Military area (Algiers area, and center for main CI)
One Armored Division
One Mechanized Division
Ten Independent Infantry Battalions
Four Air Defense Battalions
One Special Forces/Airborne Divisional HQ with:
Four Airborne Regiments
Para-Commando Regiment
MBT 900
RECON 100
AFIV 900
APC 750
ARTY (T) 440
ARTY (SP) 150
MRL
120
AD GUNS
350