Monday, January 14, 2013

What Is The Afghan "Zero Option"

Special Forces Info - U.S. Army Gen. Martin E. Dempsey, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, receives a mountaintop brief from U.S. and Afghan special forces on Camp Morehead, Afghanistan, April 23, 2012. DOD photo by D. Myles Cullen

Dempsey To Explain Afghan "Zero Option" At NATO --The E-Ring

When Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Martin Dempsey faces 60 other defense chiefs from NATO and its partner nations next week in Brussels, he'll likely have to answer for one new development: the "zero option."

White House national security staffers, to much surprise, floated to the press this week that they had requested, and the Pentagon delivered, plans for leaving no U.S. troops behind in Afghanistan after 2014. It was a far cry from the pledges that President Barack Obama asked NATO allies to make at the Chicago summit last May, and on which foreign defense chiefs largely delivered with pledges of thousands of troops and billions of dollars for years to come in Afghanistan.

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My Comment: What is there to explain about a zero option .... zero means zero. I think this discussion will be more of .... how will anti-terrorism operations and drone strikes against militant sanctuaries be conducted if we no longer have an Afghan base to operate from. Good question .... and I am still waiting for an answer .... or a non-answer is the answer, meaning that the zero option is not real afterall.

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