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UNVEILING America’s new strategy for Afghanistan on Friday March 27th, Barack Obama conceded that the situation in the country is “increasingly perilous” and announced a narrower strategy for his soldiers to pursue. After an exhaustive series of reviews, and ahead of a “big tent” conference on Afghanistan in The Hague on March 31st, Mr Obama suggested that the strategy of the war is first to defeat al-Qaeda militants who operate on the border with Pakistan.