"Cultural shift" needed in Afghan combat: commander

2009/06/24 13:48:52 @Reuters: International News

CAMP LEATHERNECK, Afghanistan (Reuters) - The new commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan said on Wednesday foreign troops need to make a "cultural shift" away from conventional warfare and focus on winning the support of Afghans. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=IyvzDJN7HPk:PAw5g2lWNZ4:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=IyvzDJN7HPk:PAw5g2lWNZ4:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=IyvzDJN7HPk:PAw5g2lWNZ4:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=IyvzDJN7HPk:PAw5g2lWNZ4:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=IyvzDJN7HPk:PAw5g2lWNZ4:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/IyvzDJN7HPk" height="1" width="1"/
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