READ: Afghan president asks Obama to ‘re-examine’ troop commitments
Gen. John Campbell told the Senate Armed Services Committee on Thursday his recommendations deal with both the “glide slope” and “locations” for where to make withdrawals as the summer fighting season in Afghanistan gets underway.
“I have provided options on adjusting our force posture through my chain of command,” Campbell said, adding that he “absolutely” favored the options without elaborating on their specificity.
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“It is a concern to President Ghani, therefore, a concern to me,” he said. “But we continue to work that with our Afghan partners and to make sure that we understand where this is going inside of Afghanistan and Pakistan.”
Campbell called the ISIS presence in Afghanistan “nascent” but said their presence represents “more of a rebranding of a few marginalized Taliban, but we’re still taking this potential threat, with its dangerous rhetoric and ideology, very, very seriously.”
