id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt umn.31951d03556309e United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Armed Services. The U.S. strategy in Afghanistan and Iraq : hearing before the Committee on Armed Services, United States Senate, One Hundred Twelfth Congress, first session, September 22, 2011 2012 .txt text/plain 34331 2026 65 The strategic partnership agreement currently being negotiated between the United States and Afghanistan will help define the long-term relationship between the U.S. military support, from intelligence collection and fusion, training and maintenance, counterterrorism cooperation, air Sovereignty, and perhaps most importantly, a continued need for U.S. forces in the disputed territories of northern Iraq. in a responsible way that allows Iraq to become a secure, sovereign, stable, and self-reliant nation and a positive force for stability in that region. Given our growing budgetary constraints, we need to ensure that our support for the Afghan National Security Forces is fiscally sustainable at home. Even as the growth in the credibility and capabilities of the Afghan National Security Forces are allowing a responsible transition to proceed, another critical component of a durable transition will be for the United States to address concerns Secretary Panetta and Admiral Mullen, can the Afghan Government continue to fund and equip these robust security forces in the future? ./cache/umn.31951d03556309e.pdf ./txt/umn.31951d03556309e.txt