Author: Kim Barker, Edward R. Murrow Press Fellow
November 30, 2009
Foreign Affairs
As the Obama administration prepares to send more troops to Afghanistan, what are the problems U.S. forces will face, and what, if anything, can they do to overcome them? A series with three parts.
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