US announces a surge of military trainers to Afghanistan

02/20/12: The Long War Journal reports that the US Army recently announced the next round of unit deployments to Afghanistan. Five brigades and one army headquarters will deploy to Afghanistan between April and August 2012. While deployments are a regular part of normal troop rotations overseas, this deployment differs significantly from previous ones and plays an essential part in the new Afghan strategy to draw down forces by the end of September 2012. It is likely that the US Marines, which also has combat troops in Afghanistan, will make a similar announcement.