U.S. Army Sgt. Joseph P. Khamvongas scans the Ganjgai Valley mountainside in eastern Afghanistan’s Kunar province, Dec. 11, 2010. Khamvongas is an infantryman from Mililani, Hawaii, assigned to Company B, 2nd Battalion, 327th Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne Division. U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Mark BurrellTransformative Year In Afghanistan Leaves Many Challenges For US In 2011 -- Voice of America
2010 was a transformative year for the U.S. effort in Afghanistan, with 30,000 additional troops and thousands more civilians flowing into the country to implement President Barack Obama's revised strategy for winning the now nine-year-old war.
It has been a difficult and deadly year in the Afghanistan war. Violence and casualties are up. And progress has been difficult to measure.
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