Afghanistan: Afghan Security Forces Play Major Roll In New Operations
Coalition Forces in Eastern Afghanistan Increase Operations By Jim Garamone American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, Feb. 27, 2008 – Coalition and Afghan forces in Regional Command East have increased the operations tempo 300 percent over this time last year, a top officer in Afghanistan said today. Army Brig. Gen. Joseph Votel, Combined Joint Task force 82 deputy commander for [...]
February 28th, 2008, Posted by: LibNOT_SR under: U.S News, War On Terror with View Comments
Afghanistan: Doubt For Large Spring Offensive
Progress in Eastern Afghanistan Will Blunt Taliban Offensive By Jim Garamone American Forces Press Service WASHINGTON, Jan. 23, 2008 – The U.S. commander of NATO’s Regional Command East in Afghanistan today said he does not think the Taliban will launch a spring offensive in his area of operations. Army Maj. Gen. David Rodriguez, also commander of Combined Joint Task [...]
January 24th, 2008, Posted by: LibNOT_SR under: U.S News, War On Terror with View Comments