America expects to spend Big Money in Afghanistan

The United States of America expects to allocate billions of dollars in Afghanistan training its security forces long after it withdraws troops from the country, reports say

The amount which is expected to be spent by the US is about $6 billion a year training and supporting Afghan troops and police after it begins withdrawing troops in 2011.

The estimates of US spending through 2015, detailed in a NATO training mission document, are an acknowledgment that Afghanistan will remain largely dependent on the United States for its security.

Spending for training is projected to decrease from $11.6 billion next year to an average of $6.2 billion over the following four years.

The United States spent over $20 billion on training between 2003 and 2009 and expects to spend about the same this year and next alone.

Even head of the NATO training mission, Lt. General Bill Caldwell, has predicted that desertion and injury rates are so high among Afghan forces that NATO will have to recruit and train 141,000 people to ensure it has the 56,000 additional personnel needed next autumn.

Meanwhile, with most of the deaths from US, NATO officials voiced concern about a surge in foreign troops' fatalities in the country.