General Allen, the commander of ISAF, recently spent some time with the Brookings Institution during his recent visit to Washington, DC. (He was addressing Congress for a couple of days on the state of the Afghan War). Some important comments that General Allen made during the Brookings Institution event include:
By September 2012 the U.S. troop level will return to pre-surge levels or around 68,000 personnel.
The main counterinsurgency effort will shift from the southern provinces to the eastern provinces.
The main threat in the east appears to be the Haqqani Network.
The 2012 Afghan-ISAF campaign for Regional Command East (RC East) will increase Afghan troop strength in provinces along the border, bolster the Afghan Local Police or ALP, Village Stability Operations (VSO) and special operations in the region. There will also be a greater density of U.S. forces partnering with their Afghan counterparts.
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