For anyone interested. I realize that for many of us, this will be "Thanks, Captain Obvious", but it does have some interesting points:
"The U.S. government’s inability to get the right people into the right jobs at the right times was one of the most significant failures of the mission. It is also one
of the hardest to repair. U.S. personnel in Afghanistan were often unqualified and poorly trained, and those who were qualified were difficult to retain. DOD police
advisors watched American TV shows to learn about policing, civil affairs teams were mass-produced via PowerPoint presentations, and every agency experienced
annual lobotomies as staff constantly rotated out, leaving successors to start from scratch and make similar mistakes all over again. These dynamics had direct
effects on the quality of reconstruction. There were often not enough staff to oversee the spending, and certainly not enough who were qualified to do so. This
was particularly true for civilian agencies, such as State or the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), which should have been leading the effort but
were unable to meaningfully perform that role. This compelled the better-resourced DOD to fill the void, creating tensions with civilian agencies that often had different ideas but fewer staff to offer."
https://www.sigar.mil/pdf/lessonslea...R-21-46-LL.pdf
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