What is the reason being for Afghan Surge Targets Taliban Bastion?
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Commanders in Afghanistan say they will devote the majority of the fresh troops expected from the White House to securing the country’s troubled south and will especially target this volatile city, the Taliban’s main power base. President Barack Obama will announce his revamped war strategy in an address early next week, likely Tuesday. He is widely expected to adopt a plan that sends between 20,000 and 40,000 more troops to bolster a flagging military campaign and the 68,000 U.S. troops now fighting it. But even before Mr. Obama takes his case to the public, military commanders on the battlefield are ready to implement a plan that makes a defensive ring around Kandahar a linchpin of the fight to come. No matter how many troops the president decides to authorize, the Kandahar campaign will be an early, large-scale test of U.S. Gen. Stanley McChrystal’s plan of refocusing allied military, political and economic efforts on population centers and away from sparsel
* NOVEMBER 25, 2009 Surge Targets Taliban Bastion By MICHAEL M. PHILLIPS KANDAHAR, Afghanistan — Commanders in Afghanistan say they will devote the majority of the fresh troops expected from the White House to securing the country’s troubled south and will especially target this volatile city, the Taliban’s main power base. AU.S. soldier snaps an image of anAfghan man’s iris to be used for identification. Commanders will concentrate any newtroops in the southern part of the country, putting a ring around the Taliban power base of Kandahar. Reuters A U.S. soldier snaps an image of an Afghan man’s iris to be used for identification. Commanders will concentrate any new troops in the southern part of the country, putting a ring around the Taliban power base of Kandahar. AU.S. soldier snaps an image of anAfghan man’s iris to be used for identification. Commanders will concentrate any newtroops in the southern part of the country, putting a ring around the Taliban power base of Kandahar. AU
