Winter Campaign

Our main effort in Afghanistan will shift to the east while we hold the gains in the south. A winter campaign along the Afghanistan-Pakistan border makes sense to interdict cross-border traffic and weaken the Taliban's efforts to reinforce Afghanistan for next year's spring fighting season and to interfere with Taliban efforts to rest and recuperate in Pakistan and in remote areas in eastern Afghanistan. This fits in with that effort:

The United States has deployed hundreds of troops along Afghanistan's border with Pakistan's tribal region, Press TV reported.

Reinforced with gunships and heavy weaponry, some 500 of the forces had been stationed near Afghanistan's border with Pakistan's North Waziristan region, a senior Pakistani government official told our correspondent on condition of anonymity on Sunday. The United States has deployed hundreds of troops along Afghanistan's border with Pakistan's tribal region, Press TV reported.

Remember that our forces are actually better equipped to campaign in the winter than the local Taliban. We don't need to take a season off to hole up around a fire and lick our wounds. Doing this will mean that yet another pledged enemy spring offensive will be nothing but a press release as our forces press the fight against them.