CFR Analyst: Shifting Resources to Afghanistan Won't be Easy

By Kate Brannen / November 24, 2008 at 5:00 AM
The need to provide more resources and U.S. troops to Afghanistan may be hampered by complicated logistics demands and longer-term peacekeeping efforts in Iraq, according to a defense policy expert who recently returned from the country. "In the long term, there's going to have to be a resource swing from Iraq to Afghanistan in order to bring about success in Afghanistan, given the limits that I see in the ability of the Afghan security forces to solve the problem themselves,"...

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