On a recent weekend, that involved establishing a joint American-Iraqi security outpost in Andalus, one of the city's worst neighborhoods, where the pockmarked buildings still bear the scars of the 2004 American assault.
FORWARD OPERATING BASE FENTY, Afghanistan – The new defense secretary, Chuck Hagel, arrived at this rugged security outpost situated along a ratline of insurgent infiltration from Pakistan to talk to American troops about the war.
The last security outpost is set to be finished in September, followed by four new police stations scattered throughout the city.
If the shipping industry applied this strategy to today's piracy threat, it could establish a series of interlocking security outposts in the Gulf of Aden as well as along the coastlines of Somalia and, farther south, Kenya.
The troops will remain at numerous security outposts in a support role to Iraqi forces, the commander said.
The group was relatively inactive for some time afterward, but in recent months a series of brazen raids on checkpoints and security outposts have left at least 50 police officers and soldiers dead, mostly in southern Yemen.
A senior security official said about 150 militants initiated the simultaneous attacks on five security outposts near the Afghan border, killing 11 members of Pakistan's Frontier Corps and wounding 9.
After the first phase of construction came the clinics and food-distribution centers, sanitation, water storage, electricity, schools, communal prefab kitchens, communal prefab toilets and showers, public transport, police and security outposts.
