Someone please post reliable sources for this data

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1. U.S. Troop levels
2. Costs of Afghanistan war (preferably with analysis)
3. White House's latest negotiations/proposals for removal & what's staying

I haven't found any good reports or articles that have yielded this information.

Thanks.

 

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Military Personnel Statistics

Total Military Personnel and Dependent End Strength.


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Fact Sheet: The U.S.-Afghanistan Strategic Partnership Agreement

The Agreement provides for the possibility of U.S. forces in Afghanistan after 2014, for the purposes of training Afghan Forces and targeting the remnants of al-Qaeda, and commits the United States and Afghanistan to initiate negotiations on a Bilateral Security Agreement to supersede our current Status of Forces Agreement. The United States will also designate Afghanistan a “Major Non-NATO Ally” to provide a long-term framework for security and defense cooperation.

To be clear, the Strategic Partnership Agreement itself does not commit the United States to any specific troop levels or levels of funding in the future, as those are decisions will be made in consultation with the U.S. Congress. It does, however, commit the United States to seek funding from Congress on an annual basis to support the training, equipping, advising and sustaining of Afghan National Security Forces, as well as for social and economic assistance.

So now you need to ask what Congress's Afghanistan strategy is. Good luck.

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The war in Afghanistan has cost the United States nearly $1.2 trillion -- or $1.172 trillion, to be exact -- since its inception in 2001 through July 31, 2012, according to the U.S. Defense Department.

According to a Pew Trusts report, the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have contributed more to growth in U.S. debt than any other policy since 2001 except the Bush-era tax cuts and the increased interest from legislative changes.

2,000 Dead: Cost of War in Afghanistan - ABC News


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Thanks.

I just found these:

FY2013 Defense Budget Request: Overview and Context
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/R42489.pdf

Defense: FY2013 Authorization and Appropriations
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/R42607.pdf

So Obama's looking for $31 billion in DoD spending in FY2013? Doesn't seem like enough, does it?