Bush Announces Plan for Troop Realignment
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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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The U.S. military's top general said Monday that the Joint Chiefs of Staff is weighing a range of possible new directions in Iraq, including, if President Bush deems it necessary, an even bigger troop buildup.
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President Bush today announced plans to shift 60,000 to 70,000 U.S. troops who are now stationed in Europe and Asia.
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The United States plans to withdraw  about 70,000 troops from Europe and Asia in a major realignment  of American military presence prompted by the end of the Cold  War and the beginning of the war on terrorism, U.S. officials  said on Saturday.
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European and Asian countries with U.S. troops have braced for the changes for several years, but Bush's announcement Monday that up to 70,000 uniformed personnel and 100,000 dependents will gradually be moved ...
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All U.S. military units sent to Iraq as part of a troop increase ordered by President George W. Bush will be fully trained and equipped, commanders promised on Tuesday, after Democratic contentions that the Pentagon could not afford to do so.
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President Bush has decided to create a new military command for Africa to oversee various missions on the continent, including possible military operations, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates told a Senate panel today.
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The US president is to announce troop reductions in Iraq in a speech later this week, the White House says.
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US President George W Bush is likely to send more troops to Iraq next year, an administration official says.
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President George W. Bush said on  Tuesday he had approved plans to create a U.S. military command  for Africa, a move that reflects increased U.S. strategic  interest in the continent.
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BRUSSELS, Aug. 17 (Xinhuanet) -- The planned realignment of American military forces, announced by President George W. Bush Monday, aims to transform the US military into a lighter, more lethal and more flexible force.
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President Bush has taken the most dramatic options off the table as he tries to change direction in Iraq, leaving him with a list of modest military and diplomatic moves to announce in the new year.
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President Bush is expected to  announce on Monday the withdrawal of about 70,000 troops from  Europe and Asia in a major realignment of the U.S. military  presence to better fight the war on terrorism.
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President Bush signed off on a plan that will keep more troops than previously envisioned in Europe and add large numbers of soldiers to bases in Colorado, Georgia and Texas.
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President George W. Bush will announce plans on Thursday to pull 5,700 troops out of Iraq by December, accepting recommendations by the top U.S. commander and diplomat in Iraq, a senior administration official said.
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WASHINGTON -- President Bush said yesterday that he had approved plans to create a US military command for Africa, a move that reflects increased US strategic interest in the continent.
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President Bush said that the Pentagon would withdraw 60,000 to 70,000 troops over the next decade from Europe and Asia.