Bush Plans to Increase Size of Strained Military
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President Bush said that the U.S. should expand the size of its armed forces, acknowledging that the military has been strained by the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Defense and military officials have been asked to prepare projections so that President Bush can balance troop requests for Iraq against other needs.
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The &#36;419 billion defense budget that President Bush submitted to Congress on Monday would buy fewer planes, ships and submarines than the Pentagon previously planned, but it puts extra emphasis on anti-terror commandos and expands the Army and Marine Corps.
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A White House laboring to find a new approach in Iraq said Tuesday it is considering sending more U.S. troops, an option that worries top generals because of its questionable payoff and potential backlash. President Bush said he is ready to boost the overall size of an American military overstretched by its efforts against worldwide terrorism.
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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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Considering how long the prospect of U.S. ground forces reductions in Europe and Asia has loomed on the horizon, President George W. Bush's announcement Monday that about 70,000 soldiers are to be brought home ...
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Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld  said on Sunday a proposed major realignment of U.S. troops  stationed overseas would take several years and very likely  lead to more forces stationed in the United States with greater  flexibility to meet post-Cold War challenges.
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Australia announced a A$10 billion  ($7.6 billion) plan to increase the size of its army on  Thursday so it could respond more quickly to emergencies caused  by growing instability in small Asia-Pacific nations.
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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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WASHINGTON -- President Bush sent a $2.90 trillion spending plan to a Democratic-controlled Congress on Monday, proposing a big increase in military spending, including billions more to fight the war in Iraq, while squeezing the rest of government to meet his goal of eliminating the deficit in five...
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President Bush on Monday announced plans to bring home up to 70,000 troops from Europe and Asia within a decade in a major realignment that Democrats said was politically motivated in an election year.
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CINCINNATI - President Bush on Monday announced plans to shift as many as 70,000 U.S. troops who are now stationed in Western Europe and Asia in one of the largest realignments since the end of the Cold War...
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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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The move by President Bush makes good on a pledge to dramatically scale up efforts to train and equip Iraqi security forces ahead of an eventual U.S. withdrawal.
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Warning that the active-duty Army "will break" under the strain of today's war-zone rotations, the nation's top Army general yesterday called for expanding the force by 7,000 or more soldiers a year and lifting Pentagon restrictions on involuntary call-ups of Army National Guard and Army Reserve troops....
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Bush's plan this week to restructure US forces in Europe is stirring up a mix of worry, nostalgia, and hope.
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WASHINGTON -- President Bush will announce tomorrow that he plans to pull 70,000 to 100,000 troops out of Europe and Asia in the first major reconfiguration of overseas military deployments by the United States since the Cold War ended, according to White House officials.