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| Troop-Boost Plan Gains Backing | |
| 2009-10-24 | |
| WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration is moving toward a hybrid strategy in Afghanistan that would combine elements of both the troop-heavy approach sought by its top military commander and a narrower option backed by Vice President Joe Biden, a decision that could pave the way for thousands of new U.S. forces. The emerging strategy would largely rebuff proposals to maintain current troop levels and rely on unmanned drone attacks and elite special-operations troops to hunt individual militants, an idea championed by Mr. Biden and opposed by Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. commander in Kabul, and other senior military officials. People familiar with the internal debates say Mr. Obama rejected a strictly counter-terror approach during White House deliberations in early October. One official said Pentagon strategists were asked to draft brief written arguments making the best case for each strategy, but the strategists had difficulties writing out a credible case for the counter-terror approach -- prompting members of Mr. Biden's staff to step in and write the document themselves. Signs the White House is moving towards Gen. McChrystal's view of the conflict mounted Friday as the 28 North Atlantic Treaty Organization defense ministers endorsed the commander's counterinsurgency strategy and signaled they might be open to modestly increasing their military and civilian contributions to the war effort.
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| Posted by:Steve White |
| #6 Mother MacCree!!! We are going way beyond the scope of the Peter Principle here. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2009-10-24 13:01 |
| #5 I remember Biden's brilliant plan for Iraq involving partitioning the country. The brilliant part was ignoring it. This idiot would be far worse than Obama, who at least realises his generals may know more about fighting wars than he does. |
| Posted by: Apostate 2009-10-24 10:02 |
| #4 Wait a minute. Joe's from Deleware, right? Same general idea still applies. |
| Posted by: Richard of Oregon 2009-10-24 07:09 |
| #3 The pentagon couldn't write up a credible counter-insurgency plan so Joe Biden's staff did it? Way to go Joe! Show us how to dream up a military strategy that even the best profesionals can't image working. Military strategy by the Maryland Dream Works think tank. |
| Posted by: Richard of Oregon 2009-10-24 07:07 |
| #2 Methinks former CNN Big Boss "TED TURNER" has an extra US$1000.0 TRILYUHN = QUADRILYUHN-OR-SO he can spend for America = Amerika! |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2009-10-24 00:39 |
| #1 WMF > "FLOUR, NOT SWORDS OR GUNS": RETIRED AFGHAN WAR SOVIET GENERAL SAYS US MUST RECOGNIZE IT IS FIGHTING AGZ TOTAL POPULATION ["Total War"/Peoples War", NOT JUST TALIBAN OR OTHER MILITANT GROUPS. FIGHTING A STRATIFIED/ MICROMANAGED WAR [Vietnam War] WILL ONLY LEAD IN LT TO MIL CONFLICT WITH ENTIRE MUSLIM WORLD AND GEOPOL CATASTROPHE-DEFEAT FOR US. Winning "Hearts-and-Minds", Jobs/Bread-and-Butter", "Liberte, Fraternite', Eqalite', "Jobs Bread, and Land", ........@ rvolutionary adages in MAHA-RUSHIAN/LIMBAUGHIAN Histoire'??? aka [New]MARSHALL PLANS, NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT, NATIONAL CONSTRUCTION, NATION-BUILDING, etc. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2009-10-24 00:36 |