Trump's Afghanistan strategy added approximately 3,500 United States troops
Entities and roles
- 2017 Afghanistan troop increaseadditional troop deployment
- Donald J. Trumppresident approving the strategy and deployment
Claims and evidence
- factdocumented
Trump informed Congress that he had approved deploying approximately 3,500 additional United States personnel to Afghanistan.
- The White House: Text of a Letter from the President to the Speaker of the House of RepresentativesAfghanistan deployment paragraph