Afghanistan
Emily Winterbotham, an Afghanistan expert at the Royal United Services Institute, said sending additional troops was “a sticking plaster and will just prolong what is a negatively deteriorating stalemate.” Winterbotham added that the additional troop deployment, expected to focus on boosting special operations and air-power capacities, would increase the U.S. military’s ability to carry out different operations simultaneously. But ultimately, any increase in troops was likely to be met with pushback from insurgents.
