The Obama administration wants thousands of additional allied troops slated to deploy to Afghanistan to arrive in the first half of 2010, Pentagon policy chief Michèle Flournoy said today. NATO last week pledged 7,000 more troops for the Afghanistan mission and is discussing sending more. The alliance's commitment includes some forces already moved into Afghanistan for the recent elections, but most of the total number will be newly deployed, Flournoy said at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank...
