This process was in the hands of a small number of western experts invited to Kabul by the Afghan Amirs.

After 2000, the Afghan ministry of agriculture and livestock and USAID have been helping to regrow the number of livestocks throughout the country.

The administration of U. S. President Barack Obama announced in 2009 that it would increase the number of Afghan troops and police to 400, 000 active units.

Due to large number of defectors, the Afghan armed forces in 1985 was reduced to around 47, 000.

The Afghan Air Force also has small number of female pilots.

In many ways, the National Reconciliation led to an increasing number of urban dwellers to support his rule, and the stabilisation of the Afghan defence forces.

The Soviets also varied the number of accompanying helicopters ( two or three ) in an effort to upset Afghan force estimations and preparation.

The state of the Afghan military deteriorated under Amin ; due to desertions the number of military personnel in the Afghan army decreased from 100, 000, in the immediate aftermath of the Saur Revolution, to somewhere between 50, 000 and 70, 000.

The National Reconciliation did lead an increasing number of urban dwellers to support his rule, and to the stabilisation of the Afghan defence forces.

Iran hopes for stabilization in Afghanistan and supports the reconstruction effort so that the Afghan refugees in Iran ( which number approximately 2. 5 million.

In 2009, a nationwide survey conducted by the Afghan Central Statistics Office ( CSO ) estimated that the total number of Afghans living inside Afghanistan was about 24. 5 million and by 2011 it reached 26 million.

In retaliation for Pakistan's assistance to the insurgents, the KHAD Afghan security service, under leader Mohammad Najibullah, carried out ( according to the Mitrokhin archives and other sources ) a large number of operations against Pakistan.

In response the Pakistani military reportedly shelled some Afghan villages in Afghanistan's Nuristan, Kunar, Nangarhar, and Khost provinces resulting in a number of Afghan civilians being killed.

On July 17, 2009, in an article published by Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty, Dostum, recently reappointed to his government job by Afghan President Hamid Karzai, again described Doran's film as a " fake story ", saying that the whole number of prisoners of war captured by his troops was less than the number Doran's film claimed had been killed, and denying there could have been any abuse of prisoners.

Hafizullah Amin with a number of Afghan military officers supporting the Khalq faction of the PDPA wing stayed out of prison.

These steps do not improve Afghanistan's relations with the Indian government, which is already looking with suspicion on some of its military activities ; so much so that in August Mr. Yunus, the secretary of the Afghan legation in London, thought it necessary to send a communication to The Times stating that the number of Afghanistan's aeroplanes was too small to cause any apprehension, and that the Russians engaged in the air service were employed as pilots or mechanics in the same way as any other Europeans.

After the Armed Forces of the United States together with the Afghan Northern Alliance initiated a bombing campaign on the Tora Bora mountains a large number of al-Qaeda sympathisers and others in the affected areas fled southward to Pakistan.

A large number of Afghan stamps appeared in the 1960s.

In Operation Mountain Viper, the United States Army and the Afghan National Army ( nearly 1000 in number ) worked together from August 30 to early September, 2003, to uncover hundreds of suspected Taliban rebels dug into the mountains of Daychopan district, Zabul province, Afghanistan.

A limited number of local Afghan citizens were employed in the laundry.

In early 2009 a number of Operational Mentoring and Liaison Teams ( OMLTs ) were embedded into the Afghan National Army battalions serving in the 4th ( ANA ) Brigade, 205th Hero Corps, in Uruzgan as part of the Australian mission to mentor and partner the ANA within the province.

The sheriff and District Attorney Mills hastily swore out a number of warrants against men who had been riding about armed, according to signed statements by Chavez and Dr. I. P. George, and ordered Deputy Barney Clark of Raton to rescue the posseman.

The Swiss Confederate mobilized its troops — the country follows the doctrine of " armed neutrality " with all males required to have military training — a number that General Eisenhower estimated to be about 850, 000.

Current personnel in the armed forces number 72, 940 ( IISS 2007 ), although a reduction to 60, 000 is planned.

Most of the army was composed of riflemen, a significant percentage of which were in Menelik's reserve ; however, the army was also composed of a significant number of cavalry and infantry only armed with lances.

The armed forces number 38, 000-40, 000 personnel in ground, air, and naval forces.

The UP also suffered an increasing number of losses during this term ( including the assassination of presidential candidate Bernardo Jaramillo ), which stemmed both from private proto-paramilitary organizations, increasingly powerful drug lords and a number of would-be paramilitary-sympathizers within the armed forces.

Fatah has since its inception created, led or sponsored a number of armed groups and militias, some of which have had an official standing as the movement's armed wing, and some of which have not been publicly or even internally recognized as such.

On 20 June 1792 a number of armed women took part in a procession that " passed through the halls of the Legislative Assembly, into the Tuilleries Gardens, and then through the King ’ s residence.

Since late 2001, the military of Afghanistan and the United States armed forces have established a number of bases, with the one at Jalalabad Airport being the largest.

The unescorted, but armed, ship was carrying 1, 800 Italian POWs guarded by 103 Free Poles, 268 British military personnel from the Desert War in Egypt, and a number of civilians.

Although the election was boycotted by the Mujahideen, the government left 50 of the 234 seats in the House of Representatives, as well as a small number of seats in the Senate, vacant in the hope that the guerillas would end their armed struggle and participate in the government.

Engaging approximately 350 personnel it deploys a small number of lightly armed patrol vessels.

The armed forces comprise three main branches: the Pakistan Army, the Pakistan Navy ( including the Pakistan Marines ) and the Pakistan Air Force, together with a number of paramilitary forces.

By the time the war began, the number of members rose to 250, 000, and the Waffen-SS was formed in August 1940, expanding the earlier armed SS troops who had fought in Poland and France in 1939 – 40, to serve alongside the Wehrmacht, Germany's regular armed forces.

By the end of World War II, the Soviet Union had fielded the largest number of submachine guns, such as the PPSh-41, with whole infantry battalions being armed with little else.

Several groups of blacks attempted to organize a defense, but they were overwhelmed by the number of armed whites.

Although small in number, the UAE armed forces are equipped with some of the most modern weapon systems, purchased from a variety of outside countries.

The armed forces personnel number about 14, 000 for the Army, 6, 000 for the Navy, and 3, 000 for the Air force.

The government required each merchant ship to carry a specified number of weapons ( mostly crossbows and javelins ) and armour ; merchant passengers were also expected to be armed and to fight when necessary.

The Human Security Report 2005 documented a significant decline in the number and severity of armed conflicts since the end of the Cold War in the early 1990s.