Civilian & Military Planners Have Different Ideas on Afghanistan
By Katie • Jan 11th, 2010 • Category: Civilian Support, In the PressBy Rajiv Chandraskaren / The Washington Post Two days before announcing the deployment of additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan, President Obama informed Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal that he was not granting McChrystal’s request to double the size of the Afghan army and police. Cost was a factor, as were questions about whether the capacity exists […]