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U.S. Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta, center, poses for a photo before making the announcing that U.S. Marine Corps Gen. John R. Allen, left, will be U.S. President Barack Obama’s nominee to become the new Supreme Allied Commander and U.S. Marine Corps. Gen. Joseph Dunford Jr. will be the nominee to become the new International Security Assistance Force commander during a press conference in Brussels, Oct 10, 2012. DOD photo by Erin A. Kirk-Cuomo
NATO To OK Afghanistan Follow-On Mission Today -- Stars and Stripes
BRUSSELS — NATO is set to endorse a plan for the alliance’s post-combat mission in Afghanistan, where after 2014 a residual coalition force will remain as part of an effort to bolster the capacity of Afghan security forces, NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said Wednesday.
“This new mission will not be a combat mission,” Rasmussen said during opening remarks of a meeting with NATO defense ministers. “Planning for that mission is well under way. “We will endorse the broad framework for that mission today.”
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