Reply #15: Casey spoke of having been in Afghanistan and Pakistan

[karynnj]

Says that they haven't had the time to really assess if this worked. Says he is happy for Kerry's call to have a real evaluation of the troops levels needed.

How do we accelerate the traing? How many trainers are needed?
Nagl are effort in 8 years not success story. He speaks of applying the Iraq model. He said they will have 4000 trainers. (I didn't capture numbers - but he thought it should be twice as big.) (Many lost have been trainers and advisers) Need to mentor units.

Casey asked about 3 radical groups in south. Most threatening - Taliban, the other two not nice, but not as committed as Taliban.