Trump added troops in Afghanistan, but NATO still short of meeting its goal
By Dan Lamothe, The Washington Post
Published: November 9, 2017, 8:29pm
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Afghanistan’s acting defense minister Major General Tariq Shah Bahrami, second left, poses for a photo with the US top commander in Afghanistan US Army General John Nicholson, right, during a round table of NATO defense ministers and Resolute Support operational partner nations at NATO headquarters in Brussels on Thursday, Nov. 9, 2017. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)
BRUSSELS — Senior U.S. defense officials pressed their case Thursday for fellow members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to contribute more troops to the Afghanistan war effort, but the response is still short of what top coalition commanders say they need.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that the new number is not yet finalized, but acknowledged that not all NATO military jobs in Afghanistan have been filled — a persistent problem last year when there were hundreds of vacancies.
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