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Article: Pentagon considering ways to keep military presence in Central Asia for the long run
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- AP Worldstream
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- April 30, 2002
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Dateline: WASHINGTON
The Pentagon is considering ways to keep a military "footprint" in
Central Asia after U.S. forces leave Afghanistan, but it has no plan
to establish permanent military bases, officials say.
Before the United States launched the war in Afghanistan it had no
forces based in Central Asia.
Now it has thousands in Pakistan, Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan,
Turkmenistan and Afghanistan _ infantry, special operations air and
ground troops, military police and intelligence analysts, along with
fighter aircraft, refueling and cargo planes, and reconnaissance and
surveillance aircraft.
A less conspicuous toehold could be kept beyond the current ...