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New Afghan War Headache: Not Enough Troops Available?

Beneath Washington's political :0px; padding:0px } body.hmmessage { font-size: 10pt; font-family:Verdana } -->squabbling over a new war strategy for Afghanistan is a deeper concern, this one among the Pentagon's war planners: not enough troops to go around. It's easy to overlook in Washington, but the Army still has almost 100,000 soldiers deployed in Iraq, and it's becoming less clear when they're coming home. With the growing demands of the Afghanistan war and other global commitments, the Army currently has more soldiers deployed overseas than it had at the height of the Iraq "surge'' in ...

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