Army Won't Shorten Combat Tours in Iraq
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The Army will not shorten combat tours in Iraq next year from 12 months to six or nine months, as some had hoped, because that would undermine the war effort, the Army's top general said Tuesday.
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The general who oversees the Iraq   war said on Tuesday he did not expect any reductions in the   size of the U.S. force until at least the end of spring 2007,   as American troops try to prevent Iraq from falling into civil   war.
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Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday that extending deployments of U.S. troops now in Iraq beyond the current 15 months was a "worst-case scenario" and that he didn't anticipate it happening.
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Armor Holdings Inc.&#39;s order from the US Army last week to accelerate monthly production of heavily armored Humvee military vehicles won&#39;t increase the total number of the vehicles destined for Iraq, the Army said.
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A US commander in Iraq warns against early troop withdrawals, despite growing calls for a pullout.
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US soldiers in Kuwait who are headed to Iraq put Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld on the defensive yesterday, grilling him about extended tours
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The reduction involves Army soldiers and Marines whose tours were extended last month to bolster security ahead of the elections.
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The U.S. Army expects to keep its troop strength in Iraq at the current level of about 120,000 for at least two more years, according to the Army's top operations officer.
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Three months into the new U.S. military strategy that has sent tens of thousands of additional troops into Iraq, overall levels of violence in the country have not decreased, as attacks have shifted away from Baghdad and Anbar, where American forces are concentrated, only to rise in most other...
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The U.S. Army is considering  shortening yearlong combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan amid  concerns the long and perilous duty is making it hard to  attract new soldiers and keep current ones, officials said on  Monday.
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The U.S. Army is now planning to  keep at least 120,000 troops in Iraq for the next two years to  train and fight with Iraqi forces against insurgents, a senior  Army general said on Monday.
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The Pentagon plans to extend its buildup of combat troops in Afghanistan, initially announced as lasting until late spring, well into next year, a senior U.S. military official said Friday. The move comes as U.S. and allied commanders anticipate a renewed offensive this spring by the Taliban.
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Tours of duty for U.S. soldiers in Iraq may be cut from 15 months to 12 if current improvements in security hold up, the U.S. commander in Iraq said Tuesday.
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Eight soldiers say they have been prevented from leaving Iraq even though the terms of enlistment they signed up for have run out.
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Gen. George W. Casey Jr., the Army's chief of staff, said yesterday he hopes to shorten the 15-month tours in Iraq and Afghanistan this summer. The move would end a policy, required by the buildup of nearly 30,000 U.S. troops in Iraq last year, that has placed significant stress on soldiers and...
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The Pentagon says the US force in Iraq will be expanded by nearly 12,000 troops in advance of January elections. More than 10,000 troops currently in that country will have their tours of duty extended.
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FORT LEWIS, Wash  - A U.S. Army officer who refused an order to deploy to Iraq, pleaded not guilty on Monday to several charges at a court-martial that calls into question the right of officers to speak out against the war.