Today's NY Times lead editorial, "The Way Out," lauds Lieutenant General Bill Caldwell, here before as Frontier 6, for the job he's doing as head of security force training in Afghanistan:
General Caldwell has brought a new coherence and purpose to the mission by revamping the Afghan Army leadership program and standardizing police instruction, among other innovations. And he has managed to double his number of trainers from 1,300 when he started to roughly 2,700 today. But he — more to the point, Defense Secretary Robert Gates and General McChrystal — is having a very hard time getting the rest of NATO to deliver on commitments.
Editorial also cites the big challenges - not enough NATO trainers and an Afghan military culture that doesn't value training,
More here on what Caldwell did when he headed education and training programs at Fort Leavenworth. Same time that he started blogging as Frontier 6 ("Let Soldiers Blog, Post to YouTube.")
