This week we discussed the various intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) assets that were deployed in Afghanistan in support of intelligence collection and training for our Afghan counterparts. Another guest joins us to help explain those processes as well as to help shed light on some of the office politics and misuse of assets that got in the way of effective ISR tasking. We also discuss the role of close air support (CAS) and  address what the future of CAS looks like in an Afghan Air Force without US and NATO contractors on site to assist in upkeep and training. We also spent a little time talking about the current state of the Afghan Air Force in general and what can possibly be expected in the immediate future.  At the beginning of the episode we share a current news story about a favorite restaurant of ours from the Boardwalk during our time in Kandahar. 

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