It is the only way we will successfully transition responsibility to the Afghans themselves.
Afghan Security Forces have grown by over 100,000 troops, and in some provinces and municipalities we have already begun to transition responsibility for security to the Afghan people.
Afghan security forces have grown by over 100,000 troops, and in some provinces and municipalities we've already begun to transition responsibility for security to the Afghan people.
We will have to do the hard work of keeping the gains that we have made, while we drawdown our forces and transition responsibility for security to the Afghan government.
We will have to do the hard work of keeping the gains that we have made, while we draw down our forces and transition responsibility for security to the Afghan government.
We'll have to do the hard work of keeping the gains that we've made, while we draw down our forces and transition responsibility for security to the Afghan government.
Under-secretary of defence for policy Michèle Flournoy says a successful counter-insurgency strategy involves: Leveraging the coercive... force to establish a safe and secure environment … establish political, legal, social and … economic institutions; and help transition responsibility to a legitimate civil authority operating under the rule of law... toward long-term developmental activities.
The long-term goal must be to transition responsibility and authority for the future of Afghanistan to the Afghan people.
We will have to do the hard work of keeping the gains that we have made while we draw down our forces and transition responsibility for security to the Afghan government". The Associated Press notes that even with the drawdown, roughly 70,000 U.S. troops will remain in Afghanistan under the plan outlined by the president.
From 2011, as part of the same process, local non-government implementing partners were required to transition responsibility for some support activities (e.g. quality assurance checks, administrative support roles) to District and Provincial health offices.
As a major goal of the course was to transition responsibility from Yale to Liberian faculty, we examined differences in participants views and satisfaction between the first cohort (taught completely by Yale faculty), the second cohort (taught with faculty time split evenly between Yale and Mother Patern College) and the third cohort (taught completely by Mother Patern College).
