Petraeus Launches Strategy Review: Afghanistan Will Probably Be "The Longest Campaign Of The Long War"

Washington Post:

Gen. David H. Petraeus has launched a major reassessment of U.S. strategy for Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran, Iraq and the surrounding region, while warning that the lack of development and the spiraling violence in Afghanistan will probably make it "the longest campaign of the long war."

The 100-day assessment will result in a new campaign plan for the Middle East and Central Asia, a region in which Petraeus will oversee the operations of more than 200,000 American troops as the new head of U.S. Central Command, beginning Oct. 31.

The review will formally begin next month, but experts and military officials involved said Petraeus is already focused on at least two major themes: government-led reconciliation of Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and the leveraging of diplomatic and economic initiatives with nearby countries that are influential in the war.

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D. H. "BETRAY US" BRIDGE TO FAR!

D.H. Betray US, is taking a broken (USMIC) United States Military Israeli Complex into a fight with a country that beat the Soviet Russian Army, in a vicious Gurellia War, after troops from the Former Soviet Republic of Georgia trainied by D. H., were over-run and beaten in less than (5) five days. Just another day of More Money, More Time, More Troops, More Mission Creep for the "A-Typical" West Pointer. Half a Billion a month, for (10++++) ten plus, plus, plus years chasing ghosts trained by (BWI) Blackwater Incorp. Mereceneries for (45) days on weapons, and weapons supplied by the (USMIC) thru the Afghanistan Government, to kill (USMIC) troops. Great idea D. H. JUST GREAT!