Gates: US May Send Even More Troops to Afghanistan Than Planned

McChrystal Report Expected Soon
By Jason Ditz,

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates says that the United States could wind up sending even more troops to Afghanistan this year than was initially planned. During a visit to Fort Drum in New York, Secretary Gates said the number of troops by the end of the year could exceed the 68,000 planned in the Obama Administration’s escalation, though he said it probably would not be much higher.

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