FACTBOX-Afghan National Security Forces
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March 27 (Reuters) - Washington will announce details of its strategy review for Afghanistan and Pakistan on Friday.
The review includes plans to expand and strengthen Afghan National Security Forces (ANSF) with the deployment of 4,000 extra U.S. troops tasked with training new recruits.
They are expected to arrive by this autumn and are in addition to the 17,000 troops already scheduled for deployment.
The ANSF are mostly trained by some 7,000 U.S. troops. They are led by the Combined Security Transition Command-Afghanistan (CSTC-A). British, Polish, Canadian, Albanian, German, French and Romanian troops also work alongside CSTC-A.
The Afghan National Police (ANP) are trained by CSTC-A and some 400 European Union police (EUPOL), which has a mandate until 2010. Some ANP training is also outsourced to private security contractors.
Following is a list of facts about ANSF, which comprises Afghan National Army (ANA) and the ANP.
AFGHAN NATIONAL ARMY (ANA)
Size: 82,781, as of March 15.
Growth: To expand to 134,000 troops by December 2011.
Cost: Sustaining the ANA costs $2.2 billion a year. This will rise to $3 million a year after the expansion, which itself will cost $17 billion.
Distribution: Consists of 160 units of five ground corps, spread regionally throughout Afghanistan, and one air corps.
Training: 26,000 soldiers were trained in 2008, and 28,000 are expected to be trained by the end of 2009. 179 training teams are required for the 134,000 ANA expansion.
Casualties: 568 ANA soldiers killed in action between 2007 and 2009.
Equipment: Uses mainly Soviet-era Kalashnikov AK-47 assault rifles, but the U.S. military modernisation programme is providing them with U.S.-made M-16s and M-4s rifles, M-203 grenade launchers and some 4,000 armoured Humvee vehicles.
Issues: The ANA is widely acknowledged to be one relative success story in Afghanistan, with units operating increasingly independently of NATO forces or leading the fight against insurgents with only support from foreign troops.
AFGHAN NATIONAL POLICE (ANP)
Size: 80,356 as of March 15.
Growth: Expand to 82,000 police by December 2009.
Cost: In 2002, Germany was given the task of creating and training an Afghan police force, but only spent $80 million by 2007, when EUPOL took over the task. EUPOL's budget is $87 million (64 million euros) until Nov. 2009.
Those sums are dwarfed by the amount spent by the U.S. military, which budgeted $2.5 billion on retraining the police in 2007 and a further $800 million in 2008.
Distribution: ANP consists of six organisations including uniformed police (40,000), border police (17,000), and civil order police (5,000). It has posts in nearly every one of Afghanistan's nearly 400 districts.
Training: 28,197 have been trained since June 2007. The U.S. military says it has a shortfall of 2,300 police trainers and has had to transfer some trainers and mentors from the ANA programme to help, weakening the army training programme.
Casualties: 1,504 killed in action between 2007 and 2009.
Equipment: Kalashnikov AK-47 assault rifles, rocket-propelled grenades and pick-up vehicles. Issues: The U.S. military has said the police force exists in a culture of corruption. A registration and ID card programme and electronic pay transfer has been introduced to help combat salary-related corruption and a new interior minister is conducting a nationwide audit to weed out so-called "ghost policemen" -- officers on the payroll who do not really exist.
Sources: Combined Security Transition Command Afghanistan (CSTC-A), Reuters reporting, Council of the European Union, EUPOL website (www.consillium.eu.net) (Compiled by Golnar Motevalli; Editing by Paul Tait)
