Military of Afghanistan
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The Afghan National Army, currently being trained by the United States with the assistance of the international community, is 7,000 strong; note - the December 2001 Bonn Agreement called for all militia forces to come under the authority of the central government, but regional leaders have continued to retain their militias and the formation of a national army remains a gradual process; Afghanistan's militia forces continue to be factionalized, largely along ethnic lines.
Afghanistan has a long tradition of guerrilla and paramilitary warfare and has many individual factions. Afghanistan does not have a traditional military in the Western sense. Various factions receive logistics support from foreign powers including the People's Republic of China, Russia, Pakistan and the United States.