US Senator Mike Lee is seeking answers from the White House on a proposal to shift the US strategy in Afghanistan as President Donald Trump weighs a decision to send thousands more troops into the conflict. “From 2006 to 2014 the United States had over 20,000 troops deployed to Afghanistan at any given time, with 100,000 military personnel in the country between 2010 and 2011,” Lee wrote in a Friday letter to Trump. “However, these levels of military activity did not yield the long-term stability or security gains that were desired,” he continued. American media reported that in a letter he asked Trump, “How would an increase in the level of US forces in Afghanistan and new strategy achieve a different outcome at this time?” According to the reports, there are about 8,400 US troops in Afghanistan engaged in training, advising and assisting Afghan security forces, as well as conducting counter-terrorism operations against militant groups including the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria’s (ISIS) Afghan affiliate.
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