U.S. Army Capt. Erik Hickly, right, calls attention to an area of interest while leading a civil affairs mission in Dizak village in Afghanistan's Farah province, Sept. 12, 2012. U.S. Navy photo by Lt. Benjamin Addison - Download Hi-Res
Pentagon Invents New Goal for Afghan Surge Now That It’s Done -- Spencer Ackerman, Danger Room
The Afghanistan troop surge is almost over. But before it ends on October 1, U.S. and NATO military officials are retroactively redefining its goals. Once it was about blunting the momentum of the Taliban. The new line is that it was about getting the Afghan military prepared to take over the country.
As he returned from a trip to Turkey on Tuesday, Gen. Martin Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the point of the surge was to “buy us some time to push back on some Taliban initiatives” and “to buy us some space to grow the Afghan security forces.”
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