Our Plan in Afganistan

President Obama and his advisers are deciding whether the United States need to boost the number of troops in Afganistan. The war in Afganistan is in its eighth year and is one of the major problems that President Barack Obama has to deal with.

Obama is considering whether to continue with a war strategy he approved in March that emphasizes protecting and supporting Afghan civilians and training local army and police. That approach would require a change in tactics and more troops than the 68,000 the U.S. is scheduled to have in the theater by the end of this year, McChrystal said in an Aug. 3 assessment of the security situation in Afghanistan.

It is generally agreed upon that there needs to be an increase in the number of forces in Afganistan. The U.S. may be looking to add as many as 40,000 more forces into Afganistan.

Whitehouse spokesman Robert Gibbs says that "Pulling all U.S. troops from Afghanistan isn’t under consideration".