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The most obvious bargaining chip that could be offered to make the North Korean regime feel more secure is a reduction in US
troop
levels on the Korean Peninsula and in Asia in general, With that, the US security guarantee for Asia will weaken, in turn providing China an opportunity to step into the geopolitical breach.
Now the Bush administration and the Iraq government have signed an agreement for
troop
withdrawal by late 2011.
Whatever critics at home and abroad may think, the “surge” that President Bush is planning for Iraq is more than a
troop
increase; it is a new and high-risk regional strategy.
If the new strategy fails to produce positive and tangible results within a few months, the steady domestic drumbeat for
troop
withdrawals will become deafening.
At some point, North Korea is likely to ask for a reduction in US
troop
levels in South Korea.
After initial resistance, Bush began to change his rhetoric by suggesting that a
troop
drawdown would occur sooner than previously expected.
A month later, the influential International Institute for Strategic Studies in London estimated that US
troop
withdrawals next year were likely to be small, and that it would take at least five years for Iraq to build the 300,000-strong army needed to fight the insurgency on its own.
Von Braun predicted that military forces would use orbiting platforms to observe
troop
movements and prevent surprise attacks.
In fact, instead of congratulating itself for the supposed success of the US
troop
surge in Iraq in 2007, perhaps the Bush administration should have been touting the impact of that funding-focused initiative.
A
troop
surge that lasted up to 2010 was designed not to rout the Taliban militarily, but to strike a political deal with the enemy from a position of strength.
Yet, even before the surge began, its purpose was undercut by the exit plan, followed by a publicly announced
troop
drawdown, stretching from 2011 to 2014.
Think-tank pundits, obsessed with the permutations of issues surrounding US forces’ deployment in the world’s trouble spots, have concluded that the rising Sunni violence, too, is related to the US
troop
withdrawal.
With international aid poorly coordinated and the United States reducing its
troop
strength, many Afghans believe that the outside world is abandoning them.
Only 18 % of Democrats supported sending 40,000 more troops to Afghanistan, while 57% of Republicans supported a
troop
buildup.
The Sri Lankan military is bigger in
troop
strength than the British and Israeli militaries, having expanded five-fold since the late 1980’s to more than 200,000 troops today.
Indeed, around Gilgit in Kashmir, China’s People’s Liberation Army has greatly enhanced its
troop
presence.
Now that the US has disregarded its obligation to Ukraine – reportedly unwilling even to share intelligence with its government on Russian
troop
movements, much less supply the country with the means to defend itself – all bets are off concerning an American guarantee of Israel’s security and territorial integrity.
The “nation-building” and counterinsurgency strategy that accompanied US President Barack Obama’s
troop
surge in 2010 was meant to turn the war around.
Both Barack Obama and John McCain advocate increasing
troop
levels in Afghanistan above the levels that the Bush administration has already pledged.
If President George W. Bush’s current
troop
“surge” fails to produce an outcome that can be called “victory,” what lessons will the United States draw for its future foreign policy?
In particular, the United States, together with other donors and NATO
troop
contributors, should heed “Ten Commandments” during and after the negotiations.
It was a crime, she said, without trace (no written orders; no official directive, ever, anywhere); without graves (her father, brother, and mother became smoke and ash, with no marker but her own memory and, later, her autobiography); without ruins (Auschwitz, when she returns to it years later, is becalmed, neutralized, cleansed); without exit (Sarajevans, Rwandans, and Cambodians could, at least in theory, flee, whereas the hallmark of the Holocaust is that the world itself was a trap); and, finally, without reason (given the choice of expediting a
troop
train headed for the front or a train carrying Jews to the ovens, the Nazis always chose the latter).
Victory for Narendra Modi’s nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), a resurgent Taliban in the wake of the United States’ impending
troop
withdrawal from Afghanistan, and Pakistan’s continuing failure to negotiate with or suppress the Pakistani Taliban, point to a period of intense uncertainty and potential conflict.
As a result, he has become obsessed with micromanaging everything from
troop
movements and special events to postings and promotions, all of which require his personal stamp of approval.
Meaningful success in Afghanistan will become elusive at any level of funding or international
troop
presence.
To defeat Al Qaeda, the US doesn’t need a
troop
buildup – certainly not in Afghanistan.
Before Afghanistan becomes a Vietnam-style quagmire, Obama must rethink his plan for another
troop
surge.
Gradually drawing down US
troop
levels makes more sense, because what unites the disparate elements of the Taliban syndicate is a common opposition to foreign military presence.
The Asia-Pacific region will loom larger in Obama’s second-term agenda, especially as the ongoing US
troop
withdrawal ends the Afghanistan war by 2014.
And that is largely the result of Obama’s botched strategy, whose twin
troop
surges were designed not to rout the Taliban militarily, but to strike a political deal with them from a position of strength.
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