Posts Tagged ‘Gen. McChrystal’

Civilian & Military Planners Have Different Ideas on Afghanistan

By Katie • Jan 11th, 2010 • Category: Civilian Support, In the Press

By Rajiv Chandraskaren / The Washington Post
Two days before announcing the deployment of additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan, President Obama informed Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal that he was not granting McChrystal’s request to double the size of the Afghan army and police.

Cost was a factor, as were questions about whether the capacity exists to train […]




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