The United States has commited 68,000 troops to fighting theAl Qaeda and Taliban in Afghanistan. Photo AFP
U.S. Devotes Unit to Afghanistan War -- Wall Street Journal
WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon is setting up a unit of about 400 officers and senior enlisted personnel devoted to Afghanistan, continuing a broad revamp of how it handles the war there.
The Pakistan Afghanistan Coordination Cell is the creation of Lt. Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the Obama administration's nominee to run the Afghan war. Gen. McChrystal says he wants military personnel to accumulate expertise about the war by doing repeated deployments to Afghanistan and continuing to work on the conflict when back in the U.S.
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