{"id":74403,"date":"2017-09-01T08:39:29","date_gmt":"2017-09-01T12:39:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=74403"},"modified":"2017-09-01T08:39:29","modified_gmt":"2017-09-01T12:39:29","slug":"more-troops-to-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=74403","title":{"rendered":"More troops to Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"

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According to Stars & Stripes<\/a>, Secretary of Defense James Mattis has ordered more troops to Afghanistan in an attempt to end the war there;<\/p>\n

The bulk of the new forces ordered to deploy will bolster the U.S. mission to advise and assist Afghan security forces in their fight against the Taliban and other terrorist groups, Mattis told reporters at the Pentagon. Other units that he\u2019s signed orders for include artillery forces and logistical support teams.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have signed orders, but it is not complete,\u201d he said. \u201cThe fight will still be carried by the Afghan security forces \u2026. by and large this is to enable the Afghan forces to fight effectively.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mattis declined to identify what units he ordered to deploy, how many additional troops that he had approved or when they would arrive in Afghanistan. Defense officials said nearly 4,000 new American troops will be added to Afghanistan in the future, raising the U.S. force there to about 15,000.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The media has been speculating about which troops are going, but I’ll just wait until the units are announced. <\/p>\n

The media seemed shocked yesterday when they discovered that the actual number of troops deployed to Afghanistan was a few thousand more than they were told by the Obama Administration. I wonder how that happened? They were the most transparent administration in ever.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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