Redeployment of U.S. troops makes sense, European analysts say
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KRT) - Germans clogged the phone lines of radio talk shows Tuesday, worrying that payback time had finally arrived after the nation's decision to oppose last year's U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.
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The proposal would require that troops spend as much time at home as on their most recent tour overseas before being redeployed.
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WASHINGTON - Two Army divisions will return to the United States from Germany as part of a global military restructuring that President Bush says will bring up to 70,000 American troops home in the next decade.    Pentagon officials said Monday the 1st Armored Division and 1st Infantry Division probably won't start leaving their bases in Germany until 2006 at the earliest...
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Withdrawing U.S. troops won't end the war. But if done right, it could save American lives, contain the violence and restore U.S. credibility. Here's how
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Top US Defense officials say President Bush&#39;s plan to reposition American military power overseas is intended to put US forces in a better position to respond to potential conflicts and the threat posed by terrorism. To do that, tens of thousands of ...
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The Yanks are leaving &#151; and many French didn't even realize they were here. The last U.S. military contingent in France said adieu to the country on Friday with a fittingly low-key ceremony. With European forces taking over peacekeeping in Bosnia, the Americans are being redeployed elsewhere, thus ending a chapter of unsung cooperation between Paris and Washington.
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The British government says it&#39;ll honor the US request to send a battalion of troops to central Iraq. British Defense Secretary Geoff Hoon says there&#39;s &quot;a compelling military operational justification&quot; for the redeployment.
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Reentering history s arena. The scheduled partial U.S. troop withdrawals from Europe were long overdue; some of us had become shrill and hoarse in calling for them over the past few years .
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It was the kind of exchange that U.S. troops are counting on.
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On Monday, President George W. Bush announced the &quot;most comprehensive restructuring of US military forces overseas since the end of the Korean War.&quot; Over the next decade, the United States will repatriate 60,000 to 70,000 soldiers and ...
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Editor's note: This is the second of a two-part series on the Pentagon's plan to withdraw troops from stations abroad.
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In Europe, it's hard for some to think of Condoleezza Rice &#151; Colin Powell's expected replacement as U.S. secretary of state &#151; without recalling the low points in trans-Atlantic relations that grew out of the war in Iraq.
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WASHINGTON - President Bush's plan to call tens of thousands of U.S. troops home from Europe and Asia could gain him election-year applause from military families, but won't ease the strain on soldiers still battling violent factions in Iraq and Afghanistan...
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The United States plans to station a new  Stryker armored vehicle brigade in southeastern Germany as  early as 2006, just as it starts withdrawing some 30,000 troops  from the country as part of a major force realignment.
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The US military says it will keep its European command in Germany amid plans for a broader pull-out.
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The Air Force in Europe has made it through the Pentagon's latest troop-reduction plans unscathed, at least for now.
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US troops are vital to security, but pressure is growing for them to leave.