Washington, July 06: Admiral Michael Mullen expresses his satisfaction over a new wave of extra troops deployed to Afghanistan, saying that they can seize areas currently under Taliban control.
The US chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff told CBS in an interview that with the new deployments the troops can defeat the insurgents across the war-torn country.
“We have enough forces there now not just to clear an area but to hold it. So we can build after. That’s really the strategy,” Mullen said.
US President Barack Obama has dispatched an additional 21,000 troops to battle a mounting Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan’s southern and eastern provinces.
Previously, the only military forces on the ground in those areas were British troops who lacked the necessary presence to take on the insurgency.
—–Agencies