Obama reveals war plan today

WASHINGTON: US President Barack Obama was set to reveal today (Beijing time) his plan for winning an unpopular 8-year-old war in Afghanistan, embarking on a mission to sell skeptical Americans on the need to put thousands more troops in harm's way and to spend additional billions of taxpayer dollars.

Obama formally ends a 92-day review of the war in Afghanistan with a nationally broadcast address in which he will lay out his revamped strategy at the US Military Academy at West Point, New York.

He began rolling out his decision on Sunday night, informing key administration officials, military advisers and foreign allies in private meetings and phone calls.