THE LONG VIEW - U.S. Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, commander of the International Security Assistance Force, looks out over northern Afghanistan after a briefing on the challenges facing NATO forces, July 22, 2010. U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Bradley LailGen Petraeus Scraps McChrystal's Plan To Take Kandahar -- The Telegraph
Gen David Petraeus, the new US commander in Afghanistan, has scrapped his predecessor's plan to secure the southern city of Kandahar.
He has decided a full-scale military encirclement and invasion – as American troops had done in Iraq's Fallujah – was not an appropriate model to tackle the Taliban in the southern capital.
Gen Petraeus's decision to revise the entire strategy comes just weeks after he arrived in Afghanistan following the abrupt dismissal of Gen Stanley McChrystal for insubordination.
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