The US Army general in charge of training and equipping the Afghan National Army (ANA) and Afghan National Police (ANP) has described the unveiling of President Barack Obama's new Afpak strategy in March as a potential "tipping point" in US and NATO efforts in Afghanistan.rnMajor General Richard Formica, the commander of the Combined Security Transition Command -Afghanistan (CSTC-A), told Jane's on 22 April at CSTC-A's Kabul headquarters that the additional resources outlined by Obama promised to end the chronic under-resourcing of both civil and military projects.rn"In Iraq in 2004, if we needed something, we got it," said Gen Formica. "Up until this point in Afghanistan we figured out how to get along without it. That's changing." He said that Obama'srnstrategic review "validated the current programme we're on" and that the decision to send 4,000 US trainers as well as frontline troops was "a demonstrable and sustainable commitment to the development of the Afghan security forces".
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