WASHINGTON (Sputnik) — President Barack Obama’s decision to allow US combat strikes against Taliban fighters in Afghanistan is an effective use of the limited forces in the area, Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter said on Friday.
"The president made a decision to enable the commander there to have some additional authority to act proactively," Carter said at a Defense One technology summit in Washington, DC.
Carter explained that the new authority given to the Commander of US Forces in Afghanistan, Gen. John Nicholson, is "a good use of the combat power that we have there."
