Washington, December 01: President Barack Obama will announce he is sending 30,000 more US troops to Afghanistan within six months in a swift surge but limit the duration of their deployment.
The official, speaking on condition of anonymity ahead of Obama’s nationwide address on his new Afghan war strategy later Tuesday, said that the president would insist on establishing a ‘back-end’ to the new deployment.
The president had decided that plans for a slower ramp up of extra US troops for the gruelling eight-year war would not work, so he had ordered a much swifter influx of troops, the official said.
The length of the deployment of the extra US troops, which will take the total US deployment in Afghanistan to 100,000, was not immediately clear.