Stanley A. McChrystal

...13 dead. He said the soldiers were questioning why a decision has been put off when the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, says the situation is deteriorating. Obama is expected to soon approve an increase in the...

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The Netherlands is set to withdraw its forces in 2010. Gates said the top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal, had factored the withdrawals into account during his war planning. But Gates also said he...

In this article: Robert Gates, United States, Barack Obama, Afghanistan, Hamid Karzai, Stanley McChrystal, Thomson Reuters, Stephen Harper, Canada, and Small business

...weeks on whether to send up to 40,000 more troops that his top commander in Afghanistan, Army General Stanley McChrystal, says he needs to quell the strengthening insurgency. Writing by Jonathon Burch, additional reporting by Yousuf Azimy...

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...weeks on whether to send up to 40,000 more troops that his top commander in Afghanistan, Army General Stanley McChrystal, says he needs to quell the strengthening insurgency. Farah, a mainly desert province along the border with Iran, is...

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...decision. This summer, nameless White House officials began leaking their skepticism of plans for troop increases. Then Gen. Stanley McChrystal's assessment, calling for a more troop-intensive counterinsurgency strategy, was leaked. Then...

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...at a podium by U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan Karl Eikenberry and the top U.S. commander in the country, Gen. Stanley McChrystal. McChrystal has advocated sending tens of thousands of additional U.S. troops to Afghanistan. Eikenberry has...

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...within three years, but some see it as an ambitious pledge. The commander of foreign forces in Afghanistan, U.S. Army General Stanley McChrystal, has stressed the importance of strengthening and expanding the Afghan army and police force,...

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...the roughly 100,000 international forces in Afghanistan. Currently discussing a troop surge with the Obama administration, McChrystal says he needs the manpower to spread deeply across Afghanistan and focus on winning the population rather...

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...precisely why The Post asked him to review the book. "It was all over the news that I had been in Afghanistan" advising McChrystal, he said. Shea said she is somewhat sympathetic to Exum's explanation. But she said she told Exum that Post...

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..."a war of necessity." He sent 21,000 more troops to hold it together through the Afghan election and named two generals, Stanley McChrystal to run the war and the retired Karl Eikenberry to manage the politics and reconstruction from the...

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