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More troops 'boost to combat power'

Gordon Brown will announce that another 500 troops will be sent to Afghanistan, taking the total number of British troops there to 9500. For some military chiefs and the American military, this is not enough. Jason Straziuso, the Associated Press's chief reporter in Afghanistan for the past three years, and Colonel Richard Kemp, who commanded British troops there in 2006, discuss whether more or fewer troops are needed in Afghanistan.

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