Reversing the momentum of the Taliban-led insurgency, bolstering the ranks of indigenous security forces and shifting control of combat operations to those forces top the list of mid- and near-term goals for U.S. forces in Afghanistan, a senior Pentagon official said today. "The first step is to reverse that [momentum] and drive it in the other direction, and then drive it over some tipping point where the insurgency has been substantially degraded," Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations, Low-Intensity...
