Can Lessons Learned In Iraq Work In Afghanistan?

Courtesy NPR Programs: Morning Edition  Thu, 09/02/2010 - 6:36am

As the combat mission ends in Iraq, 30,000 additional troops are heading to Afghanistan. Comparisons between the two wars are inevitable.

Gen. David Petraeus, who commanded U.S. forces in Iraq, brings to Afghanistan many familiar military faces and the strategy of creating local forces to take control of security at the grass-roots level.

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