Obama to unveil Afghan ‘endgame’ tomorrow

US President Barack Obama is set to announce his plan to withdraw troops from Afghanistan.

The plan is aimed to map out an endgame for a 10-year war that has exacted a fearsome human and financial toll.

Two administration officials said Obama would reveal the fruit of his deliberations on a pullback due to begin next month, in a pivotal moment for US war strategy and his own political prospects ahead of his 2012 re-election bid.

The president must decide the pace and size of reductions to a 30,000-strong troop surge which he ordered in December 2009, a deployment which brought the US garrison to 100,000 soldiers.

Some analysts also expect him to chart a glide path of future withdrawals which will lead up to the planned Afghan security takeover in 2014.

Obama will also be expected to explain to Americans that his surge has wrought slow, but significant progress, particularly in southern Afghanistan against Taliban and foreshadow operations in key eastern districts.