Showing posts with label Colin Cookman. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Colin Cookman. Show all posts

Tuesday, 12 July 2016

Staying in Afghanistan (Colin Cookman, South Asia Monitor)

President Obama’s announcement follows a decision in 2015 to slow down the planned drawdown of U.S. troops from the current 9,800 to just an embassy presence by the end of 2015, as well as a more recent order last month giving U.S. military leaders more leeway on decisions to conduct strikes on the Taliban in defense of Afghan forces.

http://southasiamonitor.org/detail.php?type=n&nid=18169