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Concentration on protecting the population

McChrystal: "When you push the insurgents out, you deny them their ability. I am much less worried about killing insurgents, Taliban, than I am about securing the people."

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Concentration on protecting the population
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Connect the expanding security zones
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Establish security zones
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Gradually expand the security zones
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Insurgency needs access to the population to be effective
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Over time the insurgents become irrelevant
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Secure zones let farmers grow and transport crops safely to market
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Strategy implemented and working in Garmsir and Nawa
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Objectives of Obama's Afghanistan Strategy?
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Response from Hamid Karzai?
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Support from international allies?
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Counter-terrorist activities will be augmented
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Doubling economic assistance to Afghanistan
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Intensive training of the Afghan army and Afghan police
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Plan to start troop withdrawal in July 2011
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Policy change: from defeating the Taliban to "degrading" the Taliban
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Strong early focus on securing the South of Afghanistan
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