U.S. Marines patrol through the streets of Shah Karez city during Operation Alekhine's Gun in the Musa Qaleh district of Helmand province, Afghanistan, Feb 10, 2012. The Marines, assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, found numerous weapons caches and an estimated 150 pounds of black tar heroin. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Staff Sgt. Robert Storm Afghan General Sounds Alarm On US Plan To Cut Local Security Forces -- FOX News/Wall Street Journal
Kabul – An American proposal to cut the size of Afghan security forces by more than one third after 2014 could lead to a catastrophe, Afghanistan's defense minister told The Wall Street Journal, underlining his government's growing fears of being abandoned after most foreign troops withdraw.
The minister, Gen. Abdul Rahim Wardak, expressed his concerns after the U.S., which along with its allies funds Afghanistan's military and police forces, circulated a new proposal to cut troops to 230,000 after 2014, from 352,000 this year.
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