Is This The New Strategy To Combat The Taliban In Afghanistan?

As the administration looks to reduce the number of conventional forces in Afghanistan this summer, more Army Rangers have arrived. U.S. Army

U.S. Sends New Elite Forces To Afghanistan As Drawdown Looms -- National Journal

The Pentagon is quietly deploying a new detachment of Army Rangers to Afghanistan, increasing the number of elite U.S. commandos on the ground there as the Obama administration prepares to begin withdrawing conventional forces from the country this summer, military officials told National Journal.

The officials said that more than 100 additional Rangers had arrived in Afghanistan recently to begin targeted operations against militants in eastern and southern Afghanistan. The Rangers, highly-trained soldiers from the Pentagon’s secretive Joint Special Operations Command, are being used to raid suspected insurgent safe houses and hunt down specific Taliban leaders.

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My Comment: Michael Hughes also looks at this trend in his post at The Examiner.