How To Get Troops To Afghanistan In A Hurry -- The Danger Room
President Barack Obama is set to announce a troop surge to Afghanistan tonight — and if the latest reports are correct, the president’s plan will call for a rapid, six-month buildup.
And that asks the question: How does the U.S. military expect to get an additional 34,000 or so additional troops to Afghanistan in such short order? This is not Iraq, where the United States had the benefit of a massive staging area just over the border in Kuwait. As Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. general in the region recently put it, the lack of infrastructure in Afghanistan presents “major challenges.”
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