45,000 MORE US TROOPS NEEDED

"... Anthony Cordesman, an influential American academic who is a member of a team that has been advising General Stanley McChrystal... (said) The United States should send up to 45,000 extra troops to Afghanistan... This would bring the total American military presence in Afghanistan to about 100,000..."
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6789142.ece