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I thought we were not sending more troops over there?
The fighting season hits in summer, an agricultural downtime for the region.
Poppy fields — a cash crop for drug lords who process it into heroin — are often harvested in the spring, Thomas said. The fighting often winds down in the fall as corn and other crops near harvest.
During the winter, insurgent groups have traditionally rebuilt their ranks and trained for summer battles.
U.S. and Afghan forces locked down the Pakistan border over the winter, hampering insurgents from returning to safe havens to resupply and regroup before the spring fighting season, Thomas said.
I thought we were not sending more troops over there?
The fighting season hits in summer, an agricultural downtime for the region.
Poppy fields — a cash crop for drug lords who process it into heroin — are often harvested in the spring, Thomas said. The fighting often winds down in the fall as corn and other crops near harvest.
During the winter, insurgent groups have traditionally rebuilt their ranks and trained for summer battles.
U.S. and Afghan forces locked down the Pakistan border over the winter, hampering insurgents from returning to safe havens to resupply and regroup before the spring fighting season, Thomas said.
We must still rotate troops in and out of theater until the pullou begins, it is not sending more troops but replacing those that are due to come back.
I thought we were not sending more troops over there?
The fighting season hits in summer, an agricultural downtime for the region.
Poppy fields — a cash crop for drug lords who process it into heroin — are often harvested in the spring, Thomas said. The fighting often winds down in the fall as corn and other crops near harvest.
During the winter, insurgent groups have traditionally rebuilt their ranks and trained for summer battles.
U.S. and Afghan forces locked down the Pakistan border over the winter, hampering insurgents from returning to safe havens to resupply and regroup before the spring fighting season, Thomas said.
We must still rotate troops in and out of theater until the pullou begins, it is not sending more troops but replacing those that are due to come back.
Ok so what of this? Oh and the article said we left 2 years ago?
The transition from a Hawaii-based brigade to the 4th Brigade of the 4th Infantry Division comes at critical juncture in the Defense Department’s plan to hand over military control to Afghan forces by the end of 2014.
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