Washington Post has revealed a plan for changing the US strategy in Afghanistan

Advisers presented US Donald Trump President on a “significant” change in the American military strategy in Afghanistan. About this writes The Washington Post.

The authors proposed to send at least three thousand military to Afghanistan to 8.4 thousand already located in the country. In addition, it is planned to transfer the authority to determine the number of American military in Afghanistan. Now the White House is dealing with this issue.

The publication emphasized that one of the authors of the initiative was the adviser to the National Security president Herbert McMaster. The proposed measures are necessary in order to force representatives of the Taliban movement to start negotiations.

According to the newspaper, Trump will decide on this strategy to the NATO summit, which will be held on May 25 in Brussels.

As The Washimgton Post emphasized, the United States annually spend $ 23 billion on military operations in Afghanistan.

Earlier, the Pentagon approved the plan for the investment of about $ 8 billion in the expansion of the US military presence in the Asia-Pacific region. According to the plan, the United States will spend money on “updating military infrastructure” for five years, as well as on the exercises and placement of additional ships in the region.

In February, the commander of the US troops in Afghanistan, General John Nicholson, said he was “a lack of several thousand people” to prepare the local military and help them.