U.S. Military Leaders Discuss Troop Needs in Afghanistan

U.S. Military Leaders Discuss Troop Needs for Afghanistan

By Ann Scott Tyson

Washington Post Staff Writer

Saturday, September 26, 2009

Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the top U.S. and NATO commander in Afghanistan, held an unannounced meeting with senior U.S. military leaders on Friday to lay out his needs for additional troops for the war, as the Obama administration engages in intense deliberations over the strategy there, according to a defense official.

Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, called for the meeting, held in Germany, “to get a better understanding for himself of McChrystal’s troop requirements,” the official said. Given growing public concern over the mission in Afghanistan, Mullen wanted to sound out McChrystal face to face on the troop request in preparation for upcoming discussions in Washington, said the official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly.

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