Particularly notable, there appears to be uncertain White House support for the ambitions of Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top American commander in Afghanistan, who has asked for 40,000 to 60,000 more troops and passionately argued that the military objective be the expansive one of "shielding" the Afghan people "from all threats." In all, he wanted a combined command of 175,000 soldiers, equivalent to 44 battalions "to give us a substantial and hard-hitting offensive capability on the ground to convince" the Vietnamese insurgent forces "they cannot win."
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