The Last U.S. Military Offensive In Afghanistan?

U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Daniel Thompson posts security while members of an Afghan narcotics interdiction unit search a compound during Operation Speargun in Urmuz, Afghanistan, March 27, 2012. Thompson is a fire team leader assigned to Alpha Company, 1st Combat Engineer Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment. U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. James Mercure

Details Emerge On Coming U.S. Offensive in Eastern Afghanistan -- National Journal

5,000 American troops to move east, focus on Kabul and border with Pakistan.

A campaign that will likely be the last major U.S. offensive of the Afghan War is set to begin later this year in eastern Afghanistan, the region where the conflict began and where senior NATO officials hope their involvement will effectively come to an end.

U.S. officials in Kabul and Washington have provided National Journal an array of details about the coming push, which represents a high-stakes -- and politically complicated -- attempt to better secure Kabul as well as Afghanistan’s porous border with Pakistan before the American exit from the country accelerates. With Washington planning to shift U.S. troops out of their lead combat role next year, it is also likely to be the last major American offensive of the long war.

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My Comment: Only 5,000+ soldiers .... to push into the mountainous terrain of eastern Afghanistan on the Pakistan border .... this is not enough boots on the ground .... not even close.