{"id":85696,"date":"2017-08-31T04:57:18","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T04:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/u-s-announces-exact-number-of-its-troops-present-in-afghanistan\/"},"modified":"2017-08-31T04:57:18","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T04:57:18","slug":"u-s-announces-exact-number-of-its-troops-present-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/u-s-announces-exact-number-of-its-troops-present-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. announces exact number of its troops present in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"500\" src=\"\/2017_Uploads\/2017\/August\/31\/Massey_US_Military_Occupation_Afghanistan_850_593.jpg\" width=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON DC-KABUL (SW): United States&rsquo; Department of Defense announced that the actual number of American troops deployed in Afghanistan is 11 thousand. This comes as previously the figure was announced around 8,400 troops.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">U.S. officials said that the number includes ordinary, special, secret and temporary US troops.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Meanwhile, the United States intends to send 4 thousand more troops under the new strategy of President Donald Trump for Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Lieutenant General Kenneth McKenzie, the Joint Staff Director at Pentagon, stated that &quot;unintended consequences&quot; had followed the decision by former President Barack Obama to set a ceiling of 8,400 troops for the country last July, disrupting the American military commanders&rsquo; &nbsp;ability to deploy full units.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">U.S. President Trump announced troops surge in Afghanistan last Monday under its new strategy for Afghanistan and South Asia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">ENDS<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON DC-KABUL (SW): United States\u2019 Department of Defense announced that the actual number of American troops deployed in Afghanistan is 11 thousand. This comes as previously the figure was announced around 8,400 troops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-85696","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-security","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}