More Raw Afghan Forces Not Necessarily a Good Thing

Senator Carl Levin of Michigan, the chairman of the Armed Services Committee, announced yesterday that he was opposed to sending more troops to Afghanistan in the near future. Instead, Levin proposed the United States focus on quickly training equiping more Afghan security forces to pick up some of the slack. In this New York Times op-ed a Marine Corps University professor argues that quickly training raw forces and putting them in the field could have a detrimental affect on the progress of the war.