US president Donald Trump is saluted as he boards Air Force One before departing for Arizona from Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, on August 22, 2017. Joshua Roberts / Reuters
US president Donald Trump is saluted as he boards Air Force One before departing for Arizona from Joint Base Andrews, Maryland, on August 22, 2017. Joshua Roberts / Reuters
Trump's Afghanistan strategy receives praise from pundits, military observers and Afghan officials alike
Unlike his predecessors George W Bush and Barack Obama, US president Donald Trump refrained from offering timetables for deployments or withdrawal when he announced the new policy late on Monday, instead granting his generals unprecedented power in managing the 16-year war