Pentagon Revamps Afghanistan Deployments
Pentagon Revamps Afghanistan Deployments – Yochi Dreazen, Wall Street Journal.
The Pentagon is revamping the way it deploys troops to Afghanistan, putting in place a new system that will return units to the same parts of the country so they can develop better regional expertise and closer relationships with local Afghan power brokers.
Senior military officials say the “Campaign Continuity” initiative will determine the specific provinces and regions where many of the 30,000 soldiers and Marines who are being sent to Afghanistan as part of the Obama administration’s retooled war strategy will end up serving.
The plan represents a significant change for the military, which has long rotated its combat forces through both Afghanistan and Iraq…
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