Foxes guarding the henhouse

Surprise, surprise. More bad news from Afghanistan:

The U.S. military has only minimal knowledge of – and exercises virtually no control over – the thousands of Afghans it indirectly pays to guard its installations, including “warlords and strongmen linked to murder, kidnapping, bribery” and to the Taliban…

The Captain sums this up better than I can:

You know there aren’t enough troops when you hire foreign spies to perform your force protection.