Pentagon to request thousands more US troops for Afghanistan

‘The US military will ask the Donald Trump administration next week to deploy thousands more troops to Afghanistan, a senior official says.
US media have reported that the Pentagon will request between 3,000 and 5,000 conventional military personnel, mainly to advise and assist Afghan military and police units in the fight against the Taliban.
The Pentagon is also weighing a plan to deploy an unspecified number of Special Operations troops supposedly to escalate ground operations against al-Qaeda and Daesh (ISIL) militants.
“I expect that these proposals will go to the president within the next week,” Theresa Whelan, Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations, said in a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing on Thursday.’

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