With the Taliban resurgent, Obama's switch to Lt. Gen. Stanley McChrystal suggested the new commander-in-chief wanted major changes in addition to the additional troops he ordered into Afghanistan to shore up the war effort.
The withdrawal, which Mr. Brown said was contingent on the readiness of Iraqi forces in the region to assume security operations, would be in addition to the 500 troops the British government had previously said would return home by December.
In addition to the regular troops, 15,000 of the 18,000 members of the Federal Preventive Police (PFP), a civil force that falls under the public-security ministry, are in fact members of the army on secondment.
On January 7th America announced that it would send another 800 soldiers and 40 tanks to South Korea, in addition to the 28,000 troops it already has stationed there, as part of the country's commitment to security on the peninsula.In Pyongyang those who were unable to attend the game could read about it on the front page of the Rodong Sinmun, a state-run newspaper, or watch it on television.
In the second major foreign policy address of his campaign, Mr. Obama outlined a series of proposals to fight global terrorism, including a plan to send at least 7,000 soldiers and special forces troops to Afghanistan, in addition to the roughly 22,000 troops there now.
In addition to the 4,000 British troops in Basra, he said, the Americans sent 800 people, including surveillance experts and around 200 transition team "advisers" embedded with Iraqi troops.
In addition to the influx of troops, administration officials said they are taking other lessons from the Iraq surge, such as empowering local security forces to stand up to Taliban militants in their communities and enhancing the training of national forces by embedding American troops with Afghan counterparts and later pairing similarly sized American and Afghan units to fight side by side.
And by the way, in addition to the 59,000 American troops that got killed, there were three and a half million--by McNamara's own estimate--three and a half million Indochinese people got killed in what really are war crimes, civilian people being blasted and carpet-bombed and all that.
In addition to the regiment's 4,700 troops, the deployment order also dispatched about 15,000 other Army forces to the region, a Pentagon official said.
In addition to the 800 American combat troops in the operation, there are 120 engineers and members of logistical teams in the area, as well as some 3,800 Iraqi troops.
