Washington wants to deploy according to a newspaper report more than one thousand additional marines to Afghanistan. Background is therefore the struggle in the spring season, to the soldiers to reinforce the troops especially in the south of the country. Washington - The U.S. government is thinking about it, send 1400 additional marines to Afghanistan.
In this way, the U.S. troops before the new fighting season in the spring to be strengthened, reported the Wall Street Journal. The U.S. currently has about 100,000 troops stationed in Afghanistan. President Barack Obama is under pressure to present results in the fight against the Taliban, only to take from this year announced the withdrawal of U.S.
troops. The marines would arrive in Afghanistan from mid-January, the newspaper reported, citing familiar with the matter loops. They should be stationed mainly in the south around Kandahar. A spokesman for Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Geoff Morrell, was quoted in the report as saying that the progress of recent months should be used and the "pressure on the enemy" is increased.
President Barack Obama had stressed in December, the implementation of the strategy for Afghanistan was on schedule, but the success would be assured. A year earlier he had announced an increase of troops by 30,000 soldiers and simultaneously the beginning of the discount for mid-2011. Last year, the bloodiest since the start of the international intervention in 2001, the country attracted about 10,000 people were killed, including more than 700 foreign soldiers.
Since the beginning of operations around 2,300 international soldiers died, about two-thirds of the United States.
In this way, the U.S. troops before the new fighting season in the spring to be strengthened, reported the Wall Street Journal. The U.S. currently has about 100,000 troops stationed in Afghanistan. President Barack Obama is under pressure to present results in the fight against the Taliban, only to take from this year announced the withdrawal of U.S.
troops. The marines would arrive in Afghanistan from mid-January, the newspaper reported, citing familiar with the matter loops. They should be stationed mainly in the south around Kandahar. A spokesman for Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Geoff Morrell, was quoted in the report as saying that the progress of recent months should be used and the "pressure on the enemy" is increased.
President Barack Obama had stressed in December, the implementation of the strategy for Afghanistan was on schedule, but the success would be assured. A year earlier he had announced an increase of troops by 30,000 soldiers and simultaneously the beginning of the discount for mid-2011. Last year, the bloodiest since the start of the international intervention in 2001, the country attracted about 10,000 people were killed, including more than 700 foreign soldiers.
Since the beginning of operations around 2,300 international soldiers died, about two-thirds of the United States.
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