National Security Brief: Afghanistan ‘Surge’ Ends

National Security Brief: Afghanistan ‘Surge’ Ends: – The Pentagon announced that the last of the 33,000 “surge” troops President Obama ordered to Afghanistan in December 2009 are now out of the country. There are now 68,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan. There were 32,800 American soldiers there when Obama took office in January, 2009. – The White House said yesterday that the [...]/p