Joint Chiefs Advise Change In War Strategy
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The nation's top uniformed leaders are recommending that the United States change its main military mission in Iraq from combating insurgents to supporting Iraqi troops and hunting terrorists, said sources familiar with the White House's ongoing Iraq policy review.
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Gen. David H. Petraeus said that by next summer the U.S. should be able to reduce its troop strength in Iraq to the level it was at before the recent increase.
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President Bush and his top aides have signaled in recent days that they are beginning to look more closely at a "post-surge" strategy that would involve a smaller U.S. troop presence in Iraq and a mission focused on fighting al-Qaeda and training the Iraqi army.
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At a key juncture in the Iraq war, the military chiefs conveyed to President Bush on Friday their concern about a growing strain on troops and their families from long and repeated combat tours.
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The Iraq Study Group will recommend the U.S. military shift away from combat and toward more of a support role in Iraq over the next year or so, a source familiar with the panel's recommendations said.
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George Bush's choice to command US forces in the Mid-East calls for a new Iraq approach.
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White House national security adviser Stephen Hadley said Sunday that President Bush realizes "we need to make some changes" in the Iraq war policy. He was reacting to questions about a Rumsfeld memo that offered a variety of options for the future of the nearly 4-year-old war.
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WASHINGTON -- The US military must improve its planning for postwar operations, Robert M. Gates, the nominee for defense secretary, told a Senate panel.
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Our position is: The president&#39;s plan to shift troops from Europe recognizes the reality that threats against the nation have changed.
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ASHINGTON, Aug. 17  Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld and a key Senate chairman signaled today that they favor a slower, more cautious approach to revamping the United States intelligence network than has been advocated by the Sept.
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In an internal assessment given to Army Gen. David H. Petraeus, a senior intelligence analyst and a military planner for the U.S. command in Baghdad call for shifting U.S. strategy in Iraq away from counterinsurgency and toward peace enforcement, and they suggest that the Shiite-led ruling coalition...
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During a White House meeting last week, a group of governors asked President Bush and  Marine Gen. Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, about their backup plan for Iraq. What would the administration do if its new strategy didn't work?
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The United States&#39; top military commanders converged here Sunday to craft a strategy for using the momentum from a seemingly successful anti-insurgent battle
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In a highly anticipated report being released Wednesday, the Iraq Study Group will call for a dramatic shift in war policy by urging the Bush administration to set a target of moving most U.S. troops out of their combat roles by early 2008, according to two sources who have seen the executive summary of the report.
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The option of a major âsurgeâ in troop strength is gaining ground as part of a White House strategy review.
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The Pentagon is drawing up a plan that would give the military a more prominent role in intelligence-collection operations.
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Before yesterday's testimony from Gen. David H. Petraeus, Sen. Olympia J. Snowe thought the future was inevitable: The U.S. mission in Iraq would change, and the troops would come home. All the general could do with his long-awaited progress report on the war was affect the timing, because "change...