Marines Bracing for Taliban Counter-Attack in Afghanistan

U.S. Marines in Afghanistan’s southern Helmand Province are bracing for a Taliban counter-attack with confidence that the insurgents won’t be able to recapture significant territory, a coalition commander said.

The troops, working with NATO coalition and Afghan forces, have targeted Taliban supply depots, cut off their access to funding by controlling poppy-growing areas and staunched the flow of fighters from across the Pakistani border, said Marine Corps Major General Richard Mills.