Sources: Panetta to top Pentagon, Petraeus CIA
S. and its NATO partners. A designed transition to Afghan security control begins this time, and the U.S. wants to start withdrawing a little of its approximately 100,000 forces inside July.transfer Crocker to Afghanistan would for a short time reunite him with Petraeus, re-creating the diplomatic and armed aspiration team credited with rescuing the flagging American mission now Iraq.