While Washington deliberates...Gen McChyrstal is implementing his COIN strategy

Further to this post,

What's up with Mr Gates?/Update: "Adopt-a-stan"

COMISAF, aka Commander USFOR-A, is starting to move the troops (via Milnews.ca):

Troops Re-position to Better Protect Afghans

Even as leaders in Washington struggle with the next steps in Afghanistan, troops there are moving to better protect the Afghan people, NATO and Pentagon officials said today.

NATO’s International Security Assistance Force is gradually re-positioning its forces as part of the counterinsurgency strategy of protecting the population.

When Army Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal, the NATO and U.S. commander in Afghanistan, arrived in Kabul, his mission was to institute a counterinsurgency campaign against the Taliban and other terrorist groups. The heart of the campaign is protection of the Afghan people and separating the people from Taliban influence and intimidation.

McChrystal has begun re-positioning forces in Regional Command East. Combined Joint Task Force 82 is coordinating with local and regional officials as the process moves forward. The command has closed two combat outposts and one observation post to date, Pentagon officials said.

“Each closure is coordinated with the Afghan Border Police, who have the mission for protecting the border, as well as local government officials, Afghan National Police and Afghan National Army in the area,” a Regional Command East official said.

The command closed Combat Outpost Lowell [more here] in Nuristan province’s Kamdesh district today. Troops left the facilities at the outpost intact for use by the local community, and Afghan soldiers and police will take over security responsibility ffor the region.

Pentagon officials said NATO forces will continue to work with Pakistani forces across the border as the re-positioning continues, Pentagon officials said. NATO, Afghan and Pakistani officials work together in a coordination cell in the region [emphasis added]...

NATO forces will be re-positioned in other parts of Afghanistan in the coming weeks [emphasis added]. “We are re-positioning forces all across Afghanistan to better protect the Afghan people,” Shanks [Army Col. Wayne Shanks, a spokesman for the International Security Assistance Force in Kabul] said. “You won't see wholesale re-distribution, but movement from remote locations to ones which can prevent insurgent influence on the larger population centers.”..

I think the CF have already done essentially all their repositioning as part of trying to protect people.