Reuters: "FACTBOX: How Obama's Afghan strategy is shaping up" Does this sound familiar?

[Elmore Furth]

Obama will send 30,000 more U.S. troops to secure population centers, step up the fight against the Taliban and train Afghan security forces to gradually assume control blend a broad-baseandd counterinsurgency with hunt-and-kill counterterrorism tactics to create conditions which will allow an eventual U.S. troop drawdown and handover to Afghan forces over a three- to five-year period.

Vietnamization:
"During the Vietnam War, the U.S. program of turning over to the South Vietnamese government responsibility for waging the conflict, in order to implement withdrawal of U.S. military personnel." -- (The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition copyright ©2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2009.)

Does this sound familiar? It's in the dictionary.

STRATEGY TO MIX COUNTERINSURGENCY, COUNTERTERORRISM
TOP PRIORITY WILL BE TRAINING AFGHAN FORCES
OBAMA TO STRESS ROUGH HANDOVER, DRAWDOWN TIMEFRAME
TROOP INCREASE
STAGED DEPLOYMENT
ANTI-CORRUPTION 'COMPACT' WITH AFGHAN GOVERNMENT
DIVIDE AND CONQUER
PAYING THE BILLS

FACTBOX: How Obama's Afghan strategy is shaping up