Top U.S. Military Officer Lands in Afghanistan -- The New York Times
KABUL, Afghanistan — The American military’s top officer arrived Monday in Afghanistan on an unannounced visit to confer with military commanders and Afghan officials as the first of thousands of reinforcements bound for Taliban-controlled southern Afghanistan arrive this week.
The visit by the officer, Adm. Mike Mullen, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is his first to Afghanistan since President Obama this month ordered an additional 30,000 troops by next fall, raising the American total to about 100,000 forces. A fresh battalion of Marines is deploying into contested Helmand Province this week.
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Commentaries And Analysis
McChrystal's Afghan strategy attacks on several key fronts -- Trudy Rubin, Philadelphia Inquirer
Paul Mirengoff: A flawed process yields a flawed plan for Afghanistan -- Paul Mirengoff, Washington Examiner
Europe and Afghanistan -- New York Times Editorial
Obama's Afghanistan Surge: A Long War With an Uncertain Outcome -- Yahoo News/Time Magazine
Afghanistan: The Senseless War -- Abraham H. Miller, American Thinker
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