A decade in, the war’s tolls include 1,800 U.S. goals in Afghanistan remain uncertain and terrorist safe havens in Pakistan continue to undermine U.S. President Obama plans to withdraw all combat troops by 2014, but serious doubts remain about the Afghan government’s capacity to secure the country. troops deployed in a counterinsurgency role, primarily in southern and eastern regions. war in Afghanistan marks its tenth anniversary, with about hundred thousand U.S. national interests are linked to success in the Afghan war effort, and argues that this temporary surge will force Afghan political and military institutions to assume responsibility for their own affairs. But the president does not detail how long a drawdown will take. military presence, as Obama sets July 2011 as the start of a troop drawdown. And they will help create the conditions for the United States to transfer responsibility to the Afghans.” For the first time in the eight-year war effort, a time frame is put on the U.S. These forces, Obama says, “will increase our ability to train competent Afghan Security Forces, and to partner with them so that more Afghans can get into the fight. In a nationally televised speech, the president commits an additional thirty thousand forces to the fight, on top of the sixty-eight thousand in place.
commitment to the Afghan war effort, President Obama announces a major escalation of the U.S. As a result, we risk allowing what has been achieved in Afghanistan to slip away.” “At this time, many allies are unwilling to share the risks, commit the resources, and follow through on collective commitments to this mission and to each other. “Our progress in Afghanistan is real but it is fragile,” Gates says. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates criticizes NATO countries in late 2007 for not sending more soldiers.
With violence against nongovernmental aid workers increasing, U.S. “I would hope that by 2008 we will have made considerable progress,” he says, “with a more stable political architecture in place, and with a strong interface between NATO and the civilian agencies and effective, trusted Afghan security forces gradually taking control.” Leaders of the twenty-six countries agree to remove some national restrictions on how, when, and where forces can be used. NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer sets a target of 2008 for the Afghan National Army to begin to take control of security. At the NATO summit in Riga, Latvia, rifts emerge among member states on troop commitments to Afghanistan.
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