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US General Sees Afghan Army, Police Insufficient

A U.S. soldier of 2nd Platoon from the 3rd Brigade, 10th Mountain Division secures the area after his armoured vehicle slid down a road during a patrol in the village of Qaleh-ye-Naw in the mountains of Wardak Province in Afghanistan July 11, 2009. (REUTERS/Shamil Zhumatov)

Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the newly arrived top commander in Afghanistan, has concluded that the Afghan security forces will have to be far larger than currently planned if President Obama's strategy for winning the war is to succeed, according to senior military officials.

Such an expansion would require spending billions more than the $7.5 billion the administration has budgeted annually to build up the Afghan army and police over the next several years, and the likely deployment of thousands more U.S. troops as trainers and advisers, officials said.

Posted in War/Empire, Afghanistan