No. It doesn't.
Plugged into the middle of the article is the sentence "President-elect Barack Obama has pledged to move troops out of Iraq and into Afghanistan, which has seen an upswing in violence in the last two years." There is nothing about Obama's general position in December having one thing to do with the Pentagon's actions.
Bush was talking about increasing forces in Afghanistan all last year, with the first two initial movements totalling about 4,500 being carried out in November and January.