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Militant Threats Test Role of a Pentagon Command in Africa
www.nytimes.com-February 12, 2013
Created five years ago to focus on training the armed forces of dozens of African nations and strengthening social, political and economic programs, the Pentagon’s Africa Command now finds itself on a more urgent mission: confronting a new generation of Islamist militants who are testing the United States’ resolve to fight terrorism without being drawn into a major conflict.
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Afghans want withdrawal of village police trainers
www.washingtonpost.com-January 15, 2013
Days after Afghan President Hamid Karzai and President Obama seemed to agree on the future role of U.S. forces in Afghanistan, a division has emerged over one of the American military’s most prized defense programs.
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U.S. to elevate Special Operations forces’ role in Afghanistan
www.washingtonpost.com-February 06, 2012
The U.S. military is planning to elevate the role of Special Operations forces in Afghanistan as it shifts away from a combat focus to a mission that places greater emphasis on advising Afghan forces and raids to kill top insurgent leaders, senior U.S. officials said.
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U.S. Plans Shift To Elite Units As It Winds Down In Afghanistan
www.nytimes.com-February 05, 2012
The United States’ plan to wind down its combat role in Afghanistan a year earlier than expected relies on shifting responsibility to Special Operations forces that hunt insurgent leaders and train local troops, according to senior Pentagon officials and military officers. These forces could remain in the country well after the NATO mission ends in late 2014.
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How Afghanization Can Work
www.cfr.org-December 02, 2011
If past is prologue, the December 5 Bonn conference, which aims to shore up international support for Afghanistan, will conclude with promises that will almost certainly remain unfulfilled, like the Kabul and London conferences before it, and the barely noticed Istanbul conference last month.
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U.S. Commander Readying Request For More Troops To Advise Afghans
www.la.times.com-November 25, 2011
The U.S. commander in Afghanistan has prepared a request for more troops to serve as advisors for Afghan military units, a sign that Washington and its allies are trying to speed up the hand-over of combat operations to the Afghans as they prepare to withdraw, U.S. and NATO officials said.
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Terrorist Talks A Waste Of Time, Afghans Say
www.washingtontimes.com-November 08, 2011
A group of senior Afghan lawmakers says the Obama administration is wasting its time in trying to make peace with the Haqqani Network, a Pakistan-based terrorist group that U.S. officials have accused of killing Americans and attacking the U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan.
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Marine General: Afghans Will Take Lead
www.sandiegiouniontribune.com-November 02, 2011
As the U.S. begins to withdraw about a third of its forces in Afghanistan over the next year, American commanders are positioning Afghan troops to take the lead and protect security gains in hard-fought former insurgent strongholds, according to the Camp Pendleton Marine scheduled to take command next spring in the southwest.
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The Lord’s Resistance Army
www.csis.org-October 18, 2011
President Obama announced on October 14 that he was sending approximately 100 military advisers to central Africa to assist in efforts to neutralize one of the continent’s most notorious rebel groups, the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA). Their main task will be to help the militaries of Uganda, South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), and the Central African Republic (CAR) devise operations to kill or capture the LRA leadership and protect vulnerable citizens in the region. Although the advisers will be armed, they will not participate in combat operations.
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Invading Iran: Lessons from Iraq
www.hoover.org-August 01, 2011
The initial military successes in Iraq and Afghanistan were overcome by protracted insurgencies and political instability, resulting in tenuous gains in democratic development that came at an enormous cost. The United States is fast approaching a decade at war.
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