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Analysis: Are more boots on the ground the answer in Afghanistan?

President Barack Obama has a full plate of important issues this week. The big one is seen as his announcement at West Point tomorrow of a new policy on Afghani...

Federal News Network Staff

November 30, 2009 10:08 am

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President Obama is expected to announce his plans for a troop increase in Afghanistan Tuesday night. Military officials expect the number to be somewhere between 30 and 35-thousand troops. Dr. Andrew Krepinevich is the President of the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, a defense think tank. He joins us to discuss how this increase in troops will affect the military’s overall position.