A report by the SIGAR, or Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, has led to an accurate listing in the Afghanistan Weapons Inventory. This was found with glaring gaps in the list of arms sent there, which is highly irregular for the Pentagon.
SIGAR Report Reveals Conflicting Weapons Inventory
Before the United States abruptly withdrew from Afghanistan, Joe Biden oversaw a large amount of military hardware surrender, earning Kabul the moniker "the second Saigon."
It has come to light that the Pentagon has a lot to explain because not every weapon was accounted for, reported Republic World.
Indicating that the US military is in the dark about the actual number of hardware and ammunition in the hands of the Taliban after the routing of the US.
The Department of Defense (DoD) watchdog dealing with the Afghanistan war is the special inspector general, who conducts the cataloguing. Later, it stated that the DoD, under President Biden, needed to produce an accurate report.
Instead, the document is limited and contains irrelevant information concerning the Afghanistan weapon inventory that has been left behind, Sputnik News states.
The document highlights that Although Pentagon confirmed $7.1 billion in hardware abandoned in Afghanistan, which was previously given to the Afghanistan administration and the Afghan National Defense and Security Forces (ANDSF).
This department has had difficulty for years keeping track of all the equipment that went to Afghanistan, as provided by the US administration in the SIGAR report.
Pentagon's Afghanistan Weapon Inventory Inaccurate
The government watchdog publishes such reports from 2009, the Department of Defense Office of Inspector General (DOD IG), tasked with looking for accountability issues and issues with the Defense Department's method of determining what goes to Kabul.
The Pentagon was unable to comply with its oversight requirements for all sensitive equipment sent to the Afghan government and its forces, according to a recent report that the watchdog cited.
Furthermore, as shown by monitoring from May 2019 to April 2020, the total number of stockpiles for all defence items reached less than 60% due to security limits and travel restrictions. These included publications that used delicate technology.
This indicates that the US administration appears to be unaware of how much military equipment has been abandoned in Afghanistan after the US decided to ditch its military operation in the region.
Despite attempts by the DoD to divert what happened in Kabul, the report stressed that the total worth of arms left by the government costs a minimum of $7.1 billion, per VOA News.
Furthermore, a DOD IG document released in June acknowledged that, at the time of the fall of the Afghan government, the ANDSF had in its stockpiles around 3,16,000 small arms furnished by the US since 2005.
Spotlighted are several difficulties and problems concerning the core inventory management system that organizes the stockpiles at US bases in Afghanistan. Because many military outposts lacked broadband access and electricity, the alleged use of Microsoft Excel spreadsheets and written records were made.
Inaccuracies mar the SIGAR report, which contains the Afghanistan weapon inventory for the arms stockpiles the Pentagon is obligated to be accurate about.
