After arguing that no additional forces were needed, Mr. McCain reversed course on Tuesday and endorsed sending 15,000 more troops to Afghanistan.
But on Tuesday, after saying for months that no additional forces were needed in Afghanistan, Mr. McCain changed course and advocated the deployment of an additional three brigades, or about 15,000 troops.
After General McChrystal determined that at least 40,000 additional forces were needed to reverse the deteriorating situation in Afghanistan, Mr. Obama provided 30,000 and said he would ask allied nations to contribute the rest.
Hagel, confirming a change in the U.S. drawdown schedule first reported by Reuters in November, said the additional forces were needed because delays in signing security pacts had impacted plans to raise troops from other countries.
Mr. Annan argues that the additional American forces are needed not simply to supplement the Ecowas forces -- there are 500 Nigerians now, and the force level in the first wave is to be 3,250 -- but because of the symbolic role they would play.
For much of this year, Mr. McCain said that no additional American forces were needed in Afghanistan, but in July he advocated the deployment of an additional three brigades, or about 15,000 troops.
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Additional driving force is needed, which can be supplied by introducing a layer of a second organic material (the so-called double-layer cell, Figure 1a).
Several years ago, at the beginning of the insurgency, then Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld decided that additional forces were not needed in Iraq, and he refused calls for a long-term expansion of the Army and the Marine Corps.
