Giuliani Will Back a 'Surge' in Afghanistan
To Refocus Campaign With New War Strategy
By ELI LAKE
Staff Reporter of the Sun
January 2, 2008
WASHINGTON — Mayor Giuliani will announce a new four-point war strategy in New Hampshire today, an effort to refocus a primary campaign season for Republicans that has centered in recent weeks less on foreign affairs and more on immigration and domestic issues.
Specifically, Mr. Giuliani will call for a new military surge in Afghanistan, a change in the way America's spies are promoted so that officers are rewarded for finding actionable intelligence and not just the number of agents they recruit, and a new war on Al Qaeda's intricate network of Web sites, sites used both to communicate with its agents in the field and to recruit new jihadis.
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His plan is divided into four major themes: expanding the military, improving intelligence, homeland security, and winning the war of ideas against radical Islam. The speech differs in emphasis in important ways from Mr. Giuliani's essay in Foreign Affairs from September, in that it focuses exclusively on what Mr. Giuliani calls the "terrorists' war on us."
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