BlackFive

Spencer Ackerman, Jimbo's dear friend, has a piece up at Wired about our redeployment strategy for Afghanistan.  He is one of a small group of journalists that have been able to interview GEN Petraeus.

“You can reduce your forces. But you thin out,” Petraeus tells Danger Room in an interview from his professorial Kabul office. “You don’t just hand over. The whole unit doesn’t leave.” At least not in the early stages after the Obama administration’s announced date to start a withdrawal. And some of those troops won’t come home right away: they’ll be “reinvested” at first in parts of the country where security remains dicey...