{"id":64276,"date":"2016-02-11T08:30:35","date_gmt":"2016-02-11T13:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=64276"},"modified":"2016-02-11T08:30:35","modified_gmt":"2016-02-11T13:30:35","slug":"500-infantry-troops-to-helmand-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=64276","title":{"rendered":"500 Infantry troops to Helmand, Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2016\/02\/11\/us-army-orders-hundreds-soldiers-back-to-southern-afghanistan.html#.VrwO39etkpw.email\">Fox News<\/a>, the Army is sending a battalion of infantrymen, the 2nd Battalion, 87th Infantry of the 10th Mountain Division to Afghanistan, more specifically, to Helmand Province. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For the first time since combat operations were declared over at the end of 2014, a battalion of 500 U.S. Army infantrymen is being sent to southern Afghanistan\u2019s volatile Helmand Province where the Taliban have made a comeback, Fox News has learned.<\/p>\n<p>The decision, confirmed by defense officials, is a sign of military escalation in the country even as the Obama administration tries to draw down.  <\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>The 500 soldiers will not increase the overall number of U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan. That number will remain at 9,800, according to defense officials.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman for U.S. forces in Afghanistan says the new Army troops will not \u201cparticipate in combat operations.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Apparently, the White House is just now learning that which we warned about here at this blog years ago &#8211; drawing down the force in Afghanistan puts those who remain at risk because their security depends on the undependable locals. That infantry battalion will replace the 150 troops who are providing security at the moment. Funny how that works. Not funny ha-ha, though.<\/p>\n<p>A series of battles in Helmand, one that killed a special forces soldier while he was advising Afghan troops, prompted the decision to beef up security in the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Fox News, the Army is sending a battalion of infantrymen, the 2nd Battalion, 87th &hellip; <a title=\"500 Infantry troops to Helmand, Afghanistan\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=64276\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">500 Infantry troops to Helmand, Afghanistan<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}