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Washington was looking to strengthen its military deployment in Afghanistan after 2016
10.15.2015
Said US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter, said the United States is looking to strengthen its military deployment in Afghanistan after 2016, note that the current plan to keep notes thousand soldiers only in Kabul.
Carter said in front of military ground forces in Washington that "the United States is" to make amendments to the forthcoming military presence (in Afghanistan after 2016) to take into account the current circumstances. "
"US General John Campbell, commander of the NATO force in Afghanistan was announced last week endorsed the idea of strengthening the US military deployment in the country after the year" in 2016.
Campbell said he was "in the expected date for the post-2016 conditions" will enjoy very limited capabilities "at the level of training and assisting Afghan forces, pointing out that the last still needs support in key military areas along the lines of the area of logistics and intelligence close air support".
It showed many of the Taliban attacks, most recently in the northern city of Kunduz, Afghan forces are still not able alone to control the field, although Washington has spent the nearly sixty billion dollars in 14 years.
In his speech, US Defense Secretary stressed that his country "will not leave and can not leave" Afghanistan, because this will result in a case of getting to the "loss of earnings" that have been made since the invasion of that country in 2001 at the head of an international coalition.
The secretary stressed that "the United States allies in NATO in favor of that." Ended / 29 / d 24
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