Senior US official: Afghanistan will require 45,000 more American troops

From a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6789142.ece"the Times/a:br /br /blockquotespan style="font-style:italic;"The United States should send up to 45,000 extra troops to Afghanistan, a senior adviser to the American commander in Kabul has told The Times.br /br /Anthony Cordesman, an influential American academic who is a member of a team that has been advising General Stanley McChrystal, now in charge of Nato forces in Afghanistan, also said that to deal with the threat from the Taleban the size of the Afghan National Army might have to increase to 240,000.br /br /If Mr Cordesman’s recommendation reflects the view of General McChrystal, who recently presented the findings of a 60-day review of Afghanistan strategy to Washington,span style="font-weight:bold;" it would mean sending another nine combat brigades, comprising 45,000 American troops, in addition to the 21,000 already approved by President Obama. /spanThis would bring the total American military presence in Afghanistan to about 100,000, considerably closer to the force that was deployed for the counter-insurgency campaign in Iraq./span/blockquotebr /br /Wow.div class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/7893272060787897238-2661874739039541490?l=delawarelibertarian.blogspot.com'//div

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