{"id":34442,"date":"2019-02-14T13:51:07","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T13:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/uncategorized\/2019\/02\/14\/pentagon-chief-us-will-work-with-nato-on-planned-afghanistan-troop-withdrawal\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T07:23:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T07:23:14","slug":"pentagon-chief-us-will-work-with-nato-on-planned-afghanistan-troop-withdrawal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/defensenews\/smr\/munich-security-conference\/2019\/02\/14\/pentagon-chief-us-will-work-with-nato-on-planned-afghanistan-troop-withdrawal\/","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon chief: US will work with NATO on planned Afghanistan troop withdrawal"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-smg-jwplayer-video\"><atype-video-jwplayer nostick=\"true\" playlisturl=\"https:\/\/cdn.jwplayer.com\/v2\/playlists\/fCzRqMW8?tags=f26b499f-6f88-4dda-a378-c876aa82d27e\" poster=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/video-poster-f26b499f-6f88-4dda-a378-c876aa82d27e.jpg\" aspectratio=\"16 \/ 9\" mute autostart=\"false\"><\/atype-video-jwplayer><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Tara Copp reports from Kabul on the acting Secretary&#8217;s first trip there.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">BRUSSELS \u2014 U.S. plans to reduce the number of forces in Afghanistan will be coordinated with allies, Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan told NATO Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over the past few months, various administration and U.S. officials have suggested that as many as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2018\/12\/21\/report-trump-eyes-major-withdrawal-of-troops-from-afghanistan\/\" target=_blank>half of the 14,000<\/a> U.S. troops in Afghanistan would be coming home soon, whether as just a straight cut, or as part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.militarytimes.com\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2019\/02\/06\/taliban-half-of-us-troops-to-leave-afghanistan-by-may-1\/\" target=_blank>ongoing negotiations <\/a>with the Taliban to support peace talks, or just to make the force staying there more efficient, as Afghan special forces assume a much larger role in offensive operations against the Taliban.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On Thursday, both Shanahan and NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg alluded to future cuts to the force size in the now 18-year-old military operations there.<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/news\/your-military\/2019\/02\/08\/the-framework-for-a-us-withdrawal-from-afghanistan-has-been-set-will-it-stick\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"157\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/4702494.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">Plan for a US withdrawal from Afghanistan takes shape \u2014 but will it stick?<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">The U.S. and the Taliban have agreed \u2018in principle\u2019 to withdraw U.S. forces, but a final peace deal is still a long ways off, the U.S. envoy said Friday.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOf course our military commanders are constantly assessing our posture, as they do for any NATO mission,\u201d Stoltenberg said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shanahan was asked whether allies had expressed concerns on reports that the U.S. was moving forward with a significant troop decrease or impacted whether their own commitments there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThere will be no [US] unilateral troop reductions,\u201d Shanahan said. &#8220;It will be coordinated. We\u2019re together.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cSo what we talked about was, how do we double down in our support for Afghan national offensive security forces to put even more pressure on the Taliban?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/militarytimes\/news\/your-military\/2019\/01\/28\/no-troop-withdrawal-planned-yet-as-afghan-peace-plan-advances\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/AP18355695013940.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__content\">\n\t\t\t\t<span class=\"smg-interstitial-link__kicker\">Related<\/span>\n\t\t\t\t<h3 class=\"smg-interstitial-link__title\">No troop withdrawal planned yet as Afghan peace plan advances<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p class=\"smg-interstitial-link__excerpt\">The proposed plan still needs Taliban, Afghan government approval.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/a>\n\t<\/aside>\n\t\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Shanahan got some of those answers during his visit to Kabul, where U.S. Forces-Afghanistan Commander Gen. 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