U.S. military plans Iraq fallback strategy: report
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U.S. military planners have begun work on a fallback strategy in case the U.S. troop buildup in Iraq fails, including a gradual pullout of U.S. forces and more emphasis on training and advising Iraqi forces, the Los Angeles Times reported in Monday's editions.
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A U.S. general warned Saturday that increased Sunni attacks in a province extremists call the center of their Islamic state in Iraq may delay plans to hand it over to Iraqi troops by the end of the year.
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The bipartisan Iraq Study Group plans to recommend to President Bush that he threaten to reduce economic and military support for Iraq's government if it fails to meet specific benchmarks intended to improve security in the country, a source familiar with the report said yesterday.
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Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told the White House before he resigned last month the Bush administration's strategy in Iraq was not working and he proposed changes, including possible troop reductions, The New York Times reported on Saturday.
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The United States has sought to put a positive angle on its closest ally Britain&#x2019;s plan to pull its 7,100 troops out of Iraq nearly four years after the war&#x2019;s start.Comment
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Ryan C. Crocker laid out a grim forecast of what could happen if American forces were pulled back or even withdrawn from Iraq.
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The U.S. military published a new counterinsurgency manual on Friday that draws on lessons from the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and stresses that troops must be able to do more than just fight.
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U.S. forces hope to hand over half of Baghdad to Iraqi security control by the end of 2008, after violence in Iraq dropped to its lowest level since January 2006, the No. 2 U.S. general in Iraq said on Wednesday.
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A U.S. military commander said Friday that militants used a mock-up in Iran to help plan for a deadly operation in the Iraqi city of Karbala earlier this year.
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The commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus, said on Monday that America was meeting its military objectives in Iraq and troop levels could be reduced by next summer.
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Democratic leaders in the U.S. Congress on Thursday proposed withdrawing all American combat troops from Iraq by mid-2008, saying President George W. Bush's war strategy had failed and that the United States must instead focus on a brewing storm in Afghanistan.
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A new U.S. intelligence report predicted on Friday that the situation in Iraq will deteriorate further unless efforts are made to reverse conditions, a portion of the report said.
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Iraq's military is drawing up plans to cope with any quick U.S. military pullout as a senior American official warned that the Bush administration may reconsider its support if Iraqi leaders don't make major reforms by fall
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A U.S. intelligence report before  the Iraq war warned that an American invasion could lead to  rogue elements fighting the new Iraqi government and U.S.  forces, sources familiar with the report said on Tuesday.
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The U.S. acknowledged Friday that Iraq is spiraling downward, with sectarian animosity growing and new Iraqi troops being added too slowly in a precarious mix that could draw the country's neighbors into the violence if American troops leave.
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The U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff are recommending a shift in the military focus in Iraq from battling insurgents to strengthening Iraqi forces along with a new emphasis on resolving political and economic issues, The Washington Post reported on Thursday.
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The Iraq Study Group recommended on Wednesday that U.S. forces withdraw from combat over the next year and focus on training Iraqis, offering President Bush the outlines of an exit strategy from the unpopular war.