<span>The best and most correct answer among the choices provided by the question is the second choice "The Obama administration withdrew most troops from Iraq and prepared for troop withdrawal from Afghanistan."</span><span>
For all of Obama’s efforts at rapprochement with much of the world, he—like George W. Bush—was a wartime president. With the situation in Iraq continuing to improve and the target date for ending U.S. combat operations there approaching, in February 2009 Obama increased the U.S. military presence in Afghanistan to 68,000 troops. Throughout his presidential campaign he had argued that the focus of U.S. military efforts should be in Afghanistan rather than Iraq, and, with the resurgence of the Taliban in Afghanistan, the military requested that Obama deploy<span> an additional 40,000 troops there. After carefully weighing the situation for three months, Obama choose to send an additional 30,000 troops, a decision that was criticized by many in his party.
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Answer:
to form a bloc of western nations to defend against Soviet aggression
Explanation:
As a result of the increase and influence in the expansion of communism style of government and ideologies spreading the Soviet Union.
The United States along with some other Western European countries decided to form the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), formed in 1949.
The original purpose behind this group formation is to "form a bloc of western nations to defend against Soviet aggression."
