White House press secretary Robert Gibbs says the president will not announce his Afghanistan strategy before returning from Asia next week.

VOA: standard.2009.11.13

Fellow-Republican Senator Kit Bond of Missouri blasted the president for recent comments in which he stressed the need for an exit strategy from Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2009.11.23

Veterans from the conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq are weighing in on the strategy decision.

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

He says the new Obama war strategy, which also includes a major rehaul of civilian development projects, sounds like a hopeful change from the past.

VOA: standard.2009.06.15

Their families are under great risk and threat." The police are at the center of NATO's strategy for wresting control from the Taliban in southern Afghanistan, particularly around Kandahar.

VOA: standard.2010.06.16

The Obama administration's strategy is to remove all U.S.combat brigades from Iraq by September of next year, and to remove all U.S.troops from the country by the end of 2011.

VOA: standard.2009.06.30

I think that's part of the frustration." DeAngelis says the strategy going forward must be to fight the battle on many fronts, building on the lessons learned from research,detection and treatment.

VOA: standard.2010.03.25

He says the current U.S.strategy of pushing for a two-state solution is not winning support from Israelis who want to see a partition but are worried about Israel's security with Palestinians running their own state next door.

VOA: standard.2009.10.31

Some centrist Democrats, such as Senator Claire McCaskill of Missouri, also criticized the way the president rolled out the new defense plan, and some questioned the intelligence behind the change in strategy to focus moreon short and mid-range missiles from Iran.

VOA: standard.2009.09.24