Afghanistan Troop Levels

Amanda Terkel

WATCH: Petraeus Backs Obama On Afghanistan Drawdown

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 08.23.2011

WASHINGTON -- Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, told members of Congress Thursday that he backs President Barack Obama's pla...

Amanda Terkel

Democrats Disappointed With Obama's Afghanistan Speech

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 08.22.2011

WASHINGTON -- Democratic lawmakers who have been pressing for a sizable and significant withdrawal of U.S. troops from Afghanistan almost universally ...

Amanda Terkel

Obama Announces Afghanistan Troop Withdrawal In Speech To Nation

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 08.22.2011

WASHINGTON -- In a much-anticipated prime time address on Wednesday, President Barack Obama laid out the beginning of the U.S. drawdown in Afghanistan...

Admiral: No Change In U.S. Troop Levels In Afghanistan

AP | ANNE GEARAN | Posted 05.25.2011

BAGHDAD — The top U.S. military officer said Monday he doesn't foresee big changes to the number of U.S. forces fighting in Afghanistan. Adm. M...

Amanda Terkel

Obama Considering Major Boost To Afghan Security Forces, Armed Services Chairman Says

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda Terkel | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON -- President Barack Obama is currently considering a proposal to significantly increase Afghanistan's national security forces beyond their...

Nancy Pelosi, Robert Gates Differ On 2011 Afghanistan Troop Drawdown

AP/Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON - Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi offered differing visions of the planned drawdown of U.S. troops in ...

Democrats Challenge Pentagon On Afghanistan

AP | ANNE FLAHERTY and PAULINE JELINEK | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON — A schism deepened Wednesday between U.S. war leaders and Congress as lawmakers – crucial Democrats among them – challen...

Plan Now for July 2011

Jordan Dey | Posted 05.25.2011

Jordan Dey

Adhering to the July 2011 drawdown of US troops and strengthening the Afghan government will save American lives and dollars, and will place firmly in Karzai's lap the responsibility for developing Afghanistan.

Gates, Clinton Crucial Voting Bloc On Afghanistan

New York Times | Mark Landler and Thom Shanker | Posted 05.25.2011

The last time the Obama administration arrived at a moment of truth in the debate over what to do about Afghanistan, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Robert...

Matthew Hoh Resigns: State Department Official Quits Over Afghan War

Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON — A former Marine who fought in Iraq, joined the State Department after leaving the military and was a diplomat in a Taliban strongho...

Gates: Military Will Fall In Line Behind Obama On Afghanistan

AP | LARA JAKES | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON — Defense Secretary Robert Gates says the U.S. military will not hesitate in carrying out whatever mission President Barack Obama dec...

President Obama Likely to Announce Afghan Decision Between Nov. 7 and 11

ABC News | Posted 05.25.2011

Sources tell ABC News that as of now President Obama will likely announce his decision about a new strategy in Afghanistan at some point between the A...

Obama Seeking Options To Send Fewer Troops To Afghanistan

washingtonpost.com | Anne E. Kornblut and Greg Jaffe | Posted 05.25.2011

President Obama has asked the Pentagon's top generals to provide him with more options for troop levels in Afghanistan, two U.S. officials said late F...

Dan Froomkin

Obama Finally Facing Reality in Afghanistan

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 05.25.2011

Maybe it was the spectacle of all those discredited neocons gathering in Washington to urge him to stay the course in Afghanistan. Or maybe it was the...

Lessons From Afghanistan

Rep. Neil Abercrombie | Posted 05.25.2011

Rep. Neil Abercrombie

I do not believe that military victory in Afghanistan is simply a matter of reappearing with enough troops and the right military strategy.

It's the corruption, stupid!

Jane Harman | Posted 05.25.2011

Jane Harman

Success in Afghanistan is essential; the United States has invested too many troops and too much treasure to fail. But raising troop levels is the wrong place to start the discussion of how to move forward.

More Troops to Afghanistan?

Richard A. Clarke | Posted 05.25.2011

Richard A. Clarke

Afghanistan is not a numbers game. The issue is whether we are pursuing a strategy that defines our goals and tailors our means to them.

Key Senate Dems Signal Resistance To Troop Increase In Afghanistan

AP | KEN THOMAS and LOLITA C. BALDOR | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON — Key Senate Democrats signaled Friday that any push by President Barack Obama to send more troops to Afghanistan is likely to hit re...

Feingold To Oppose Afghan War Troop Increase

Washington Independent | Posted 05.25.2011

If Gen. Stanley McChrystal proposes, as expected, an increase in U.S. troops for the Afghanistan war, Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) is "likely to oppose...