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NATO Mulls Funding Afghan Troops Through 2018
NATO has said it is strongly considering a proposal to extend funding for a security force of Afghan troops through 2018. The proposal comes amid speculation that the US will reduce support for post-2014 operations. NATO is considering plans to continue supporting about 350,000 Afghan troops in the country until 2018, its Secretary General Anders [...]
US draws plans for up to 9,000 troops in Afghanistan
The US Defense Department has prepared plans for a smaller presence in Afghanistan after the White House insisted on examining the option of leaving fewer troops in the country after 2014 than was initially proposed, The Wall Street Journal reported late Friday. The newspaper said the plans now prepared by the Pentagon call for leaving [...]
Post-2014 Afghanistan Troop Levels Remain Undecided
Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta has yet to forward a recommendation to the White House on how many U.S. troops should remain in Afghanistan after 2014, Pentagon Press Secretary George Little said today. “It’s entirely premature to speculate on troop numbers in Afghanistan between now and the end of 2014 or beyond,” he said. “In [...]
British troops may return from Afghanistan earlier
British Defence Secretary Philip Hammond is considering bringing some British troops back from Afghanistan earlier than expected, he said in an interview published Thursday. “I think that the message I am getting clearly from the military is that it might be possible to draw down further troops in 2013,” Hammond told The Guardian in an [...]
South Carolina Guard troops train to evacuate embassies
Though they performed unit-level tasks in the exercises, the companies’ ultimate success was due to the most basic Soldier skills of all — leadership and discipline. Faced with role players shouting criminal accusations and other insults, the troops of 4th Battalion, 118th Infantry Regiment maintained their game faces during separate exercises at Range 5 in [...]
Austerity Measures to Delay Soldier Modernisation Efforts
Many soldier modernization programs have been delayed or reduced in scope due to budgetary pressures and technology issues. Despite such obstacles, there still exists significant growth opportunities, particularly in many untapped European and Asian programs. The genesis of soldier modernization programs began in the early 1990s when military forces sensed the need to reposition their [...]
Australia to withdraw troops from Afghanistan by 2013
Australia is set to bring its troops home from Afghanistan a year earlier than planned with most soldiers withdrawn in 2013, reports said on Tuesday. Prime Minister Julia Gillard was expected to make the announcement during a speech to the Australian Strategic Policy Institute later in the day, outlining a timetable she will take to [...]
No sign of peace as Syria troop withdrawal deadline dawns
Syria faced a deadline Tuesday to withdraw its forces from urban areas as Washington said Damascus had shown no sign of complying with a peace deal amid fierce clashes that killed more than 100. Fighting spilled over into neighbouring countries as the peace accord brokered by UN and Arab League envoy Kofi Annan hung by [...]
NATO denies accelerating Afghanistan troop withdrawal
NATO’s chief denied on Monday that the alliance was speeding up the withdrawal of combat troops from Afghanistan as he sought to clear up “confusion” over the pullout planned for the end of 2014. Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen insisted that NATO was sticking to the timeline agreed at the Lisbon summit in November 2010 [...]
