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Pentagon Plans to Send More Than 12,000 Additional Troops to Afghanistan - US News and World Report

AMERICAN DIGEST found this 8/19/2008 on usnews.com

The Pentagon will be sending 12,000 to 15,000 additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan, possibly as soon as the end of this year, with planning underway for a further force buildup in 2009. A request by Gen. David McKiernan, the commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan, for three U.S. brigades with support staff has been approved. "Now that means we just need to figure out a way to get them ...