Brennan said the approach can be seen in President Obama's personal diplomacy, especially in his speech to the Muslim community in Cairo this year.

VOA: standard.2009.08.06

"Our preventive diplomacy will be central to our approach to a lot of issues."

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

But opposition Republicans will be busy too, trying to point out what they see as the flaws in the Obama approach when they meet with voters.

VOA: standard.2009.07.31

"And we are going forward and we will come out at the end of October, beginning of November, with this new approach because something has to be changed."

VOA: standard.2010.06.29

"So we are only now beginning to be in a position to have the assets in place and the strategy or the military approach in place to begin to implement the strategy and this is going to take some time,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.03

The military official who spoke to VOA Friday said a sense of the "manpower needs" would be a component of the strategy review, but that the goals of the Afghanistan mission and what approach will be used to achieve them is the focus of discussions for now.

VOA: standard.2009.09.25