Provides a quick-reaction company in Herat, and leads the Provincial Reconstruction Teams around Kabul airport and in Qala-i-Naw, Badghis province. Mandate does not allow Spanish forces to engage Taliban insurgents unless they are directly attacked first, nor to move into the south and east of the country.
Who's Who in the Battle Against the Taliban
President Obama's announcement that the U.S. will send another 30,000 troops to Afghanistan in 2010 has re-focused attention on the fight against the Taliban, and on what other countries are doing to help