The Other Surge by Dan Green in Armed Forces Journal.
While much of the public debate over the war in Afghanistan has focused on the "surge" of U.S. troops there and the effect of President Obama's July withdrawal deadline, a quieter but equally significant increase in civilian resources has also taken place. An "uplift" of U.S. government interagency civilian personnel from the State Department, the Agency for International Development and the Agriculture Department, among other agencies, has also taken place. Announced by Obama in March 2009, the civilian uplift is "a substantial increase in our civilians on the ground ... to advance security, opportunity and justice — not just in Kabul, but from the bottom up in the provinces." ...
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