{"id":85541,"date":"2017-08-20T10:05:38","date_gmt":"2017-08-20T10:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/the-special-operations-division-promoted-to-corps\/"},"modified":"2017-08-20T10:05:38","modified_gmt":"2017-08-20T10:05:38","slug":"the-special-operations-division-promoted-to-corps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/the-special-operations-division-promoted-to-corps\/","title":{"rendered":"The Special Operations Division promoted to Corps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"443\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2017\/August\/20\/khas.jpg\" width=\"900\" \/><\/p>\n<p>KABUL (SW): Defense ministry officials reported on the promotion of the Special Operations Division to a Corps indicating the implementing the four-year program of the Ministry and the good performance of special forces in the ongoing military conflict in the country.<\/p>\n<p>President Mohammad Ashraf Ghani and General John Nicolson, the commander of Resolute Support Mission, participated in the ceremony held here in Kabul on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Dawlat Waziri, the spokesman for the Ministry of Defense, talking to Salam Watandar said that promotion of Division to Corps is executed based on the decree of the President. &ldquo;In the composition of this Corps, several brigades including quick response brigades, are included. &nbsp;New equipment and advanced weapons are added that will be useful to end the conflict in Afghanistan&rdquo;, informed Waziri.<\/p>\n<p>But military experts believe that unless the effective management of the Ministry of Defense is not formed, such Corps will be effective.<\/p>\n<p>But, Zalmai Wardak, a military analyst, told Salam Watandar that unless an efficient management does not take in the Ministry of Defense, the creation of such Corps will not be beneficial to bringing security.<\/p>\n<p>Although the Ministry of Defense&#39;s performance in the current conflict management in the country has always been criticized, the role of special forces in military operations has been praised by military experts.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KABUL (SW): Defense ministry officials reported on the promotion of the Special Operations Division to a Corps indicating the implementing the four-year program of the Ministry and the good performance of special forces in the ongoing military conflict in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85542,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-85541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85541"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85541\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}