US/AFGANISTAN/IRAQ: Wars compete for US resources

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  • Opaque Pentagon reporting
  • Reconstruction progress?
  • Afghan setbacks
  • Afghan campaign setbacks
  • Relatively small troop footprint
  • Rising violence
  • Forceful response
  • US fiscal response
  • Increased Afghanistan funding
  • Comparison with Iraq
  • Additional resource demands
  • New brigades
  • Demands upon NATO
  • US Army overstretch?
  • Pentagon personnel deliberations

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