King Amanullah Khan was the bravest Afghan who defeated British Forces and Kicked them out of our great Afghanistan in 1919. He was a Mohammedzai from the southern city of Kandahar but lived in Kaboul and Italy most of his life.
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Amanullah's domestic reforms were no less dramatic than his initiatives in foreign policy, but the king's achievement of complete independence was not matched by equally permanent gains in domestic politics.
Although Amanullah has been accused of neglecting the army and of trying to strip it of its power, the foremost scholar of this period, Poullada, concludes that the king was simply trying to cast the army in a different mold.
Amanullah infuriated the tribes by changing recruitment methods to prevent tribal leaders from controlling who joined the army and by increasing the period of conscription from two years to three.
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