‘Mini-surge’ of U.S. Special Forces to hit Afghanistan
Posted on July 6th, 2011
Stars and Stripes
July 4, 2011
U.S. military leaders are working to replace some of the exiting American conventional forces from Afghanistan with a “mini-surge” of U.S. Special Forces, a measure to soothe commanders’ fears that the withdrawal of troops might put at risk military gains, according to the Times out of Australia.
Military sources told The Times that 16 special operations personnel are considered to be worth the equivalent of 100 conventional troops.
In June, President Obama announced plans to withdraw 10,000 U.S. troops from Afghanistan by the end of the year. The remainder of the surge troops, about 23,000, would be withdrawn in 2012, leaving about 70,000 troops in Afghanistan until 2014. …
