The Cost Of The Afghan Surge Is About To Surge

An Afghan army soldier stands near a burning fuel truck outside Jalalabad east of Kabul, Afghanistan, on Sunday after a supply convoy of NATO and coalition forces was attacked. Photo from TampaBay.com

Huge Surge Logistics Bill Coming -- DoD Buzz

President Obama has com­mit­ted to a major new phase of the Afghan cam­paign. With the sub­stan­tial mis­sion expan­sion comes a sig­nif­i­cant demand for new resources to deal with the most ignored part of oper­a­tions to the out­sider, logis­tics and sus­tain­ment costs.

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My Comment: Defence of the Realm has some poignant comments on what he thinks will now happen with this surge in Logistics and transports.