Washington Post: The United States can send another 9 thousand marines to Afghanistan

Nine thousand naval infantrymen can go to the south of Afghanistan after the official publication of US President Barack Obama New Strategy aimed at increasing the number of troops in this country and delivering the next blow to the Taliban positions that intensified this year against the backdrop of a military contingent to combat them and political pressure from the Afghan government, Washington Post .

According to sources of publication among official representatives of the US authorities, the contingent of marine infantrymen will be the first to go to Afghanistan after the expansion of the military operation of American troops, which has been going on for more than eight years. The Marines will go to the Southern Afghan Province of Helmen, which, thereby, will double the number of American military personnel in this region.

“The first to send, the marine infantrymen will be advanced in anticipation of this decision. We will find a rather tough fight,” said one of the high -ranking US Army officers, General James Conway.

Immediately after this, approximately in February of the next year, military instructors of a thousand people, whose purpose will accelerate the learning and growth of the Afghan army and the police, can join the marines.

However, as notes the publication, all these measures cannot become a reality before Tuesday, December 1, when Barack Obama should perform at the Military Academy in West Punte and tell about the new US strategy in Afghanistan. Before performing in West Punte on Tuesday evening, Obama will meet with Congress members in Washington.

Currently, more than 68 thousand troops from the United States and about 45 thousand military personnel from other NATO countries have been deployed in Afghanistan. Currently, the president and his advisers are revising the strategies in Afghanistan after receiving a request from the commander of the ISAF forces of General Stanley McCrystal a few months ago to increase the military contingent in Afghanistan. The requested number of the military is not called, however, according to the American media, we can talk about 30-40 thousand people.

In addition, according to media reports, the United States can also appeal to NATO countries with a request to send more troops to Afghanistan to "fill out the gap between 34 thousand, the sending of which Obama is authorized, and 40 thousand that McCrystal requested." It is expected that with such a request to the United States will turn to NATO on December 7 in Brussels at a meeting at the headquarters of the Alliance.