The
Obama administration is deploying a "mini-surge" of more "efficient" special
forces to
"They
are arguing if they replace the one with the other then that will amount to an
increase in the amount of combat capabilities on the ground in
There
have been occasions in the past where the U.S. announced it was withdrawing a
few thousand American troops from Afghanistan but in fact they would remove "a
bunch of non-combat support forces" only to make up for it with sending more
"combat forces" later on, he said.
"In
doing so the administration seems to be hoping that they'll convince people that
the war is winding down when in fact it is still being ratcheted up."
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