WSJ: U.S. Wants 10K Troops In Afghanistan After 2014

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Top U.S. officials want to keep around 10,000 American troops in Afghanistan after the 2014 withdrawal, the Wall Street Journal reports:

A post-2014 troop level of that size would represent the midpoint of preliminary recommendations by Gen. John Allen, the commander of U.S. and international forces in Afghanistan. Gen. Allen has proposed maintaining a force between 6,000 and 15,000 U.S. troops to conduct training and counterterrorism efforts when the North Atlantic Treaty Organization mission formally concludes at the end of 2014, officials said. In contrast, the U.S. maintains no residual force in Iraq, a situation that has been blamed for instability in that country.

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