OFFICIAL: DOD MUST BLEND COUNTERDRUG OPS INTO AFGHAN COIN MISSION

摘要

The Pentagon must work quickly to fully integrate the counternarcotics mission into ongoing counterinsurgency operations in Afghanistan, or risk waging an isolated, prolonged battle against narcotraffickers in the region, a senior defense official tells Inside the Pentagon.rn"Where we are is at the beginning of this process, and so I do not have the answers ... on exactly how this is all going to work," the official said in a June 24 interview. "But the process should move rapidly. It has to move rapidly."