The defense official, who briefed reporters traveling in Israel with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joseph Dunford, said the numbers of U.S. forces to be sent had not yet been decided and would depend on the force levels NATO partners commit to.<\/p>\n
[…]<\/p>\n
In February, Gen. John Nicholson, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, said he needed a \u201cfew thousand\u201d more U.S. troops in Afghanistan to take advantage of the expanded authority granted by the Obama administration, including accompanying conventional Afghan forces and permission to conduct airstrikes against Taliban targets.<\/p>\n
The additional manpower would allow the U.S. and NATO partners to expand what Nicholson called \u201cexpeditionary advising packages.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWe would like to be able to advise below the corps level,\u201d Nicholson told Congress earlier this spring. \u201cIt\u2019s strictly a question of manning at this point.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Since Afghanistan is, technically, a NATO operation, NATO should be willing to cough up more manpower. At least now, the US troops there are getting the support that they need from this administration – the politicians are standing aside and allowing the soldiers to do their jobs. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The 82nd Airborne Division is scheduled to deploy about a thousand troops to Afghanistan next month. … 82d to add more troops to Afghanistan deployment<\/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-71949","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\/71949","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=71949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}