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The plan envisions adding hundreds of personnel to the effort on top of the 21,000 additional troops that President Barack Obama has ordered to Afghanistan.
But the Joint Staff ideas may conflict to some degree with Obamas timetable. He has seemed reluctant about getting involved in a long-term effort in Afghanistan, though he not yet to made explicit his own timetable for the war. In announcing his strategy last month, he made clear his desire for turning over the lead combat role as quickly as possible to Afghan Army and police units.
When the plan was briefed to military services and combatant commands earlier this month, senior Joint Staff officers bluntly declared that the security situation across Afghanistan is poor, stalemated, or deteriorating, according to an official who was present. They also warned that the military ought to prepare for the conflict to last another three to five years.
Preparing for years in Afghanistan - David S. Cloud - POLITICO.com
The plan envisions adding hundreds of personnel to the effort on top of the 21,000 additional troops that President Barack Obama has ordered to Afghanistan.
But the Joint Staff ideas may conflict to some degree with Obamas timetable. He has seemed reluctant about getting involved in a long-term effort in Afghanistan, though he not yet to made explicit his own timetable for the war. In announcing his strategy last month, he made clear his desire for turning over the lead combat role as quickly as possible to Afghan Army and police units.
When the plan was briefed to military services and combatant commands earlier this month, senior Joint Staff officers bluntly declared that the security situation across Afghanistan is poor, stalemated, or deteriorating, according to an official who was present. They also warned that the military ought to prepare for the conflict to last another three to five years.
Preparing for years in Afghanistan - David S. Cloud - POLITICO.com