KABUL in 2017 is being reassessed, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said on Monday.
The review of troop levels would be based on the needs of Afghan security forces, Gen. Joseph Dunford told a Pentagon news conference.
Afghan security forces needed more assistance last year than anticipated, he said. "Many of the assumptions we made in 2013 didn't obtain."
In 2013, Gen. Dunford recalled, the Pentagon had assumed a certain progression by the Afghans, a ministerial capacity, core capabilities, the . . .
