Adm. Mike Mullen is pushing to get more planes and helicopters there to make up for the lack of troops. By Gordon Lubold | Staff writer / October 9, 2008 edition Admiral Michael Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, was the featured guest at Thursday's Monitor Breakfast, as David Cook reports. ( Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff ) The Pentagon’s top officer is pushing to get more helicopters, remote control aircraft, and other “enablers” to Afghanistan to make up for what remains a shortage of American troops there. It is the Pentagon’s latest focus as the Bush administration, in its remaining months in office, conducts a top-to-bottom review of its approach to the insurgencies in both Afghanistan and Pakistan. Despite all the attention, the US will not be able to send substantial numbers of...
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