McClatchy Pentagon correspondent Nancy Youssef reports that most of the expanded force will be focused on the southern areas where Taliban forces are collaborating with narco-traffickers whose heroin trade helps fund the anti-U.S. insurgency.
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Youssef adds, however, that the overall American strategy for the Afghan conflict remains muddled.
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