A short NYT article on the declining USMC presence and their replacement by:
the Afghan National Army has grown, to almost four brigades with more than 16,000 soldiers...
Link:http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/03/wo...pagewanted=all

As a DoS veteran of Afghanistan remarked this week:
Helmand Province only has 3% of the population, why the UK & USA made such a large commitment there is not easy to understand.