Why have Senior Advisor Meetings in Afghanistan been held without their Afghan counter parts? Is this providing an American solution?

Q: Why have Senior Advisor Meetings in Afghanistan been held without their Afghan counter parts?
A: Because inviting friends to a meeting is a sure way of making them our enemy.
Sorry ... I couldn't control my inner Specialist.

I agree, however, we may question the operational security and incompetence of the Afghan military.

As an advisor to the ANP I was able to see this first hand. I would have almost daily meetings with my counterparts and then we would have evening meetings where we would get guidance from our team lead, which was a LTC and received his guidance daily from the CG. We would report up what the Afghans were doing and normally that would be good enough for the CG to say they were executing the desired effect.

Every now and then we would be asked to try something but it was always told to us that we could only suggest and we were not authorized to dictate what the Afghans did. We, the NATO advisors, had to find a way to try to suggest things to them in a way that made them feel like they came up with the idea. The team leader worked with the chief of police for the region and did a phenomenal job at assisting him with tactical planning.

At the end of the day you tell your counterparts everything that you can and invite them to any meetings that they would be allowed to hear without possibly endangering NATO forces. That is just my take on it though, I am sure a field grade could shed a lot more light on the reasoning.