It was on February 2009 US President Barak Obama additionally sent 17000
troops with the already existing US troops and NATO members. Obama replaced Gen.
David McKiernan with Gen. Stanley McChrystal; McKiernan was shifting U.S.
strategy in Afghanistan. McChrystal was appointed to bring new changes in the
strategy.
First, they give importance to protecting people rather than killing militants
and they also tried to persuade the opponent and reconciliation between the
Karzai government and Taliban leaders. After Afghan policy review, the president
delivered a speech at the U.S. Military Academy saying 30,000 additional troops
being deployed to Afghanistan by the summer of 2010, but the new strategy led to
an increase in U.S. combat passings, amid the primary three months of 2010, U.S.
passings were twice that were in 2009.
Obama made his inaugural visit to Afghanistan on March 28, where he conveyed a
stern message to Karzai, urging him to address the pervasive corruption within
his administration. This call for action came in the wake of widespread
accusations of electoral fraud surrounding Karzai's re-election for a five-year
term in 2009. Karzai also tried to reconcile with the Taliban, but the Taliban
leader steadfastly refused. This made US to pressure Karzai, were he lashes out
and even threatened to join the Taliban if the international community did not
stop meddling in Afghan affairs, but later Karzai and Obama tried to make an
effort to mend their relationship.
In June 2010 there was a significant change when Obama replaced McChrystal with
Gen. David Petraeus after McChrystal and some of his aides when they made a
remark to a Rolling Stone magazine reporter about Obama and other top
administration officials, including Vice Pres. Joe Biden, National Security
Advisor James L. Jones, and special representative to Afghanistan Richard
Holbrooke.
Petraeus, recognized as a primary figure in shaping U.S. military
counterinsurgency strategy, advanced McChrystal's concept of safeguarding the
Afghan populace against insurgents, establishing Afghan governmental structures,
and striving to minimize harm to civilians. Soon McChrystal's dismissal there
was leak of information by raw intelligence gathered between 2004 and 2009,
relating number of casualties and other details, in this US criticized as
security breach but reveal that it doesn't contain anything new.
In 2011 May, Bin Laden was killed by U.S. forces and on June Obama announced the
withdrawal of U.S. forces from Afghanistan, saying that the United States had
achieved its goals by disrupting al-Qaeda's operations and killing many of its
leaders. Later France also began to withdraw its 4,000 soldiers from
Afghanistan. In September, Burhanuddin Rabbani, a former Afghan president and a
key figure in reconciliation negotiations, was assassinated by a suicide bomber.
In 2012 there increase a tension between US and Afghan when a video began to
circulate US Marine urinate on the dead body of dead Afghan and also there was
an internal attack against NATO while they were training the Afghan solider
later suspending it.
In early 2012 in the month of March and April they agreement but the Afghan was
not happy with this and again in the month of May they made a outlining to
framework for economic and security cooperation between the two countries
following the withdrawal of NATO combat troops in 2014.The issue of leaving
troop after withdrawal of NATO remained unsolved.
In late September 2014 the Bilateral Security Agreement was signed by the
President Ashraf Ghani, from there the U.S. and NATO formally ended their
mission in Afghanistan on December 2014, but approximately 13,000 troops were
retained to support and train Afghan troops until a complete withdrawal 2020.
However, after the complete full withdrawal in 2021 the Taliban's resurgence
amid the withdrawal led to a situation reminiscent of the conditions when U.S.
forces first entered the country two decades prior.
Reference:
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https://www.britannica.com/event/Afghanistan-War/U-S-troop-surge-and-end-of-U-S-combat-mission
- https://www.cfr.org/timeline/us-war-afghanistan
- https://study.com/learn/lesson/us-invasion-afghanistan-causes-controversy-war.html
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