12.04.2009

But who's counting?

There are 68,000 U.S. troops and 42,000 from other countries in Afghanistan. The U.S. Army's recently revised counterinsurgency manual estimates that an all-out counterinsurgency campaign in a country with Afghanistan's population would require about 600,000 troops.

link: Obama plans to send 34,000 more troops to Afghanistan | McClatchy


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