US Plans Toward Afghanistan

-Immediate response to capture/kill Al-Qaeda.

-Taliban defeated, but Osama still out there.

Operation Enduring Freedom- US war plan to attack Al-Qaeda.

Phase 1- deploy US troops to neighboring countries of Afghanistan.

Phase 2- Air strikes on Afghanistan targets with Taliban help.

Phase 3- Launch ground invasion.

Phase 4- "Security and stability operations".

-88,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan on April 16, 2010.

Stanley McChrystal- Given military command of forces in Afghanistan.

David Petraus- In military command after Stanley.

Insurgency- 2006 military violence in Afghanistan.

Federally Administered Tribal Areas- Insurgency fighters safe heaven.

-90% of the worlds opium is in Afghanistan.

Blowback- US supports a government that is perceived as corrupt and that causes people to support the insurgency against the US.