troop surge

President Obama has delivered the most important war speech of his presidency. But the surge of 30,000 of American troops along with 5000 of other allies; will it make any difference to the AFPAK theatre of operations? If numbers alone are the...

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Brandon, Rochester
During his speech from West Point on Tuesday, President Obama specified the date when U.S. forces would start to withdraw from Afghanistan. “[A]dditional American...
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Brandon, Rochester
President Obama will finally have a bipartisan piece of legislation passed through Congress because opposition to the troop surge he proposes in Afghanistan is so...
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Marco Villa, Connecticut
President Obama - who ran and won election on a anti-war platform - is doubling down on his surge in Afghanistan. Obama is sending 40,000 more U.S. troops to...
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Alex, Portland
When he talks to the nation next week about his Afghanistan strategy, President Obama will face the central challenge of explaining why he is escalating an...
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Craig, Miami
President Barack Obama is expected to announce a “sizeable force” increase in US troops for Afghanistan early next week, tentatively December 1, according...
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Shane, Kansas City
The United States will make $1.3 billion available for a program that rewards Afghanistan’s anti-Taliban militias with development money, according to unnamed...
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Yoann, Minneapolis
President Obama said yesterday he is still several weeks away from adopting a new strategy for the war in Afghanistan. What’s taking so long? Obama wants his...
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Jack, Los Angeles
President Obama’s plain-speaking Defense Secretary, Robert Gates, on Nov. 12 summed up the Administration’s Afghan dilemma in a single question: “How...
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Craig, Miami
In a SPIEGEL interview, the national security adviser to the White House, General James Jones, has expressed strong skepticism regarding the request of General Stanley...
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Chad, Tempe
Mikhail Gorbachev supports a troop withdrawal from Afghanistan. The former president of the Soviet Union spoke to CNN’s John King Sunday on State Of The Union...
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Alan, Birmingham
Prime Minister Gordon Brown refused a major Afghanistan troop reinforcement against the military’s advice, the former head of the Army has said. Gen Sir Richard...
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Andrew, Tempe
The memory of the Vietnam War is holding an increasingly powerful sway over President Obama and his White House team as they explore ways to avoid the surge of troops...
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HOUSTON — President Bush agreed to “a general time horizon” for withdrawing American troops in Iraq, the White House announced Friday, in a concession that...
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