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“„Michele Flournoy, a senior Pentagon official who helped craft the new U.S. strategy, said Friday that “we have made some very clear requests of [European allies],” for more troops, trainers and money. The EU plans to expand its police training force — a key focus of the U.S. review — from about 200 today to 350 by the end of the spring, according to the spokeswoman for [EU foreign policy chief Javier] Solana. That’s still short of the 400 promised, and well short of the 4,000 extra U.S. trainers the U.S. review allocates to train Afghanistan’s army.