Analysts say defense spending is changing along with strategies - with an emphasis on intelligence and deterrence rather than on combat.

VOA: standard.2010.07.23

Paul Pillar,a former senior CIA intelligence officer now with Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, favors a shift away from direct combat operations to a concentration on training Afghanistan's army and police, and economic development.

VOA: standard.2009.10.15

They're trained in urban combat, intelligence techniques, foreign languages and foreign cultures.

NPR: Military Works to Retain In-Demand Special Forces

It's people in - for example, military police, infantrymen of course, engineers, combat engineers, intel people - intelligence people.

NPR: Marine Recall Prompts Questions over Iraq Stress

His aides are stressing that the troops being sent to the region are to be used for training, logistics and intelligence, and not combat.

BBC: What is the UK doing in North Africa?