Admiral Mike Mullen said yesterday that he anticipates more troops will be needed in Afghanistan:
Admiral Mullen, called before the Senate Armed Services Committee to testify for his nomination to serve a second term as chairman, said that no specific request for more troops had yet been received from Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the senior American and NATO commander in Afghanistan. “But I do believe that — having heard his views and having great confidence in his leadership — a properly resourced counterinsurgency probably means more forces, and, without question, more time and more commitment to the protection of the Afghan people and to the development of good governance,” Admiral Mullen said. Admiral Mullen’s comments were his most specific to date in a public setting on whether more troops would have to be sent to Afghanistan.
In What’s Really Happening in Afghanistan: A Report from the Front, Gilles Dorronsoro and Karen DeYoung, of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, examine the realities and challenges on the ground in Afghanistan and propose three solutions to the conflict.
