{"id":31218,"date":"2017-11-16T18:46:08","date_gmt":"2017-11-16T18:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/uncategorized\/2017\/11\/16\/trump-surge-in-afghanistan-is-underway-as-14000-us-troops-are-now-in-afghanistan\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T02:21:43","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T02:21:43","slug":"trump-surge-in-afghanistan-is-underway-as-14000-us-troops-are-now-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/airforcetimes\/flashpoints\/2017\/11\/16\/trump-surge-in-afghanistan-is-underway-as-14000-us-troops-are-now-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Surge in Afghanistan is underway; 14,000 US troops now in country"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>WASHINGTON \u2014 There are now approximately 14,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan, according to Lt. Gen. Kenneth F. McKenzie Jr., the Joint Staff Director.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new estimate of U.S. forces in Afghanistan is about 3,000 higher than the 11,000 previously reported by the Pentagon earlier this year. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The number reflects the arrival of several thousand more troops as part of the Trump administration\u2019s new South Asia strategy which is expected to raise U.S. troop levels in the region by just over 3,500 troops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAs you know, we just completed a force flow into Afghanistan, so the new number for Afghanistan is approximately 14,000,\u201d McKenzie told reporters at a televised briefing at the Pentagon. It \u201cmight be a little above that, might be a little below that, as we flex according to the mission.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The new force level represent the majority of the troop increase expected by the new Afghanistan strategy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There were worries that the devastating destruction caused by this year\u2019s hurricane season in the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of Mexico would delay U.S. troop deployments to the region into next year. Troop transport aircraft to include C-17s and C-5s needed to deploy U.S. forces around the globe were tied up assisting humanitarian relief in the Caribbean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, those fears have been put to rest as several thousand additional forces have just moved into the region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cGoes to show you the robustness of the force and the ability to flex,\u201d McKenzie told reporters. \u201cIt is a tremendous story about the global reach of the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But, U.S. commanders need approximately 16,000 troops in the region to undertake Army Gen. John Nicholson\u2019s new strategy in the war-torn region, which calls for putting U.S. advisers closer to the front lines with Afghan forces as they battle a resurgent Taliban threat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Those additional numbers are expected to come from other NATO countries. However, the troop-contributing nations in the alliance have yet to make commitments and the alliance so far has come up short, only meeting 90 percent of military requirements for the new strategy,<a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/flashpoints\/2017\/11\/15\/nato-chief-says-theyll-have-enough-forces-in-afghanistan\/\" title=\"\" class=\"selected-link\"> according to AP<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI\u2019m absolutely confident that we will have sufficient forces when we move into 2018,\u201d NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg told AP in an interview. \u201cWe are still receiving pledges and announcements about more troop contributions from allies.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Most of the additional 3,500 troops that the Trump administration planned to deploy are now in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":59762,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-noindex":"","_yoast_wpseo_meta-robots-nofollow":"","_yoast_wpseo_canonical":"","_acf":"","_yoast_wpseo_primary_category":13,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_smg_distribution_targets":[]},"categories":[101,13,16,26,65,67],"tags":[],"coauthors":[3412],"class_list":["post-31218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-news-roundup","category-flashpoints","category-news","category-newsletters","category-pentagon-congress","category-your-air-force"],"acf":{"subheadline":"","legacy_arc_id":"OARHSVJAPRGABIGVHSYIIJT3OM","arc_canonical_url":"\/flashpoints\/2017\/11\/16\/trump-surge-in-afghanistan-is-underway-as-14000-us-troops-are-now-in-afghanistan\/","remove_feature_photo":false,"is_sponsored":false,"subtype":"","redirect_url":"","disable_inline_ads":false,"native_logo_pretext":"Presented By:"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.0 (Yoast SEO v28.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Surge in Afghanistan is underway; 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