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Maj. Gen. Mart de Kruif, Royal Netherlands Army, former commander of NATO's International Security Assistance Force Regional Command South, holds a press conference, Dec. 14, 2009, at the Pentagon, to discuss his experiences leading 40,000 coalition troops in southern Afghanistan over the past year.

COMMANDER'S EXPERIENCE

Maj. Gen. Mart de Kruif, Royal Netherlands Army, former commander of NATO's International Security Assistance Force Regional Command South, holds a press conference, Dec. 14, 2009, at the Pentagon, to discuss his experiences leading 40,000 coalition troops in southern Afghanistan over the past year.

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