Camp Victory Afghanistan

The US National Guard has been given a difficult task: to turn Afghan refugees, illiterate farmers, and occasional fighters into a future army with defence capabilities. In 2005, this involved several logical steps that were meant to follow each other in a progressive sequence, i.e. to defeat the Taliban, to hand over power to a democratically elected government, which, among other things, would be supported by the authority of a functional army, and to gradually withdraw from the country. This film follows the five-year effort of NATO and American troops stationed at a base in Herat as it tries to train a modern Afghan army and their daily battles with the harsh reality of the situation. Is it at all possible for them to transform poor, illiterate farmers without proper equipment into professional soldiers? Are such soldiers able to face an elusive and dangerous enemy, which operates outside of the law?