From DefenseNews

 

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U.S. Shifts Supply Routes to Central Asia: Report

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE

Published: 3 Jul 2011 12:43

 

WASHINGTON - The U.S. military is expanding its Central Asian supply routes to the war in Afghanistan, fearing that the routes going through Pakistan could be endangered by deteriorating U.S.-Pakistani relations, The Washington Post reported late on July 2.

From National Defense

 

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Rampant Pilfering in Pakistan Plagues Supply Routes into Afghanistan

 

Fuel convoys are under constant threat of roadside bomb attacks in Afghanistan, but that is only one of the many nightmares the U.S. military faces moving supplies into the war-torn nation.

 

The pilfering of food, construction materials and other general supplies is rampant as the Army ships these items through Pakistan, said Lt. Gen. Mitchell H. Stevenson, the service’s deputy chief of staff for logistics.