Iraq troop buildup idea worries generals
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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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(CBS/AP) The Army is considering shortening tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, but may face a dilemma between encouraging recruiting and keeping front-line positions adequately manned.
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By July, the number of U.S. troops in Iraq should be down to about 130,000, according to the U.S. commander in Baghdad, Army Gen. David H. Petraeus -- about the same number as before President Bush sent additional combat forces there last spring.
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US commanders intend to use the increase of US troops in Iraq in more offensive operations.
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BAGHDAD, Jan. 30 -- Senior U.S. military commanders here say they want to freeze troop reductions starting this summer for at least a month, making it more likely that the next administration will inherit as many troops in Iraq as there were before President Bush announced a "surge" of forces a year...
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The top U.S. general and diplomat in Iraq are expected to argue against a major decrease in troop levels for now in much-awaited testimony to Congress on Monday, but leading Democrats said the administration was pursuing a failed strategy.
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BAGHDAD -- U.S. military officials here are increasingly envisioning a "post-occupation" troop presence in Iraq that neither maintains current levels nor leads to a complete pullout, but aims for a smaller, longer-term force that would remain in the country for years.
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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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Pursuing the insurgents is hard enough. But Iraq's top general has to walk a difficult line of battling militias without alienating their political leaders
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The Army's top general warned on Thursday that his force "will break" without thousands more active duty troops and greater use of the reserves. He issued the warning as President Bush considers new strategies for Iraq.
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A US request for British troops to move up to Baghdad to allow American forces to be pulled out for a possible attack on Fallujah is prompting fears from both troops and politicians
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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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Amid growing concerns about the stability of Iraq, the Pentagon yesterday announced that it will boost the number of troops there to the highest
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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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General David Petraeus believes his Iraq strategy is slowly making progress. But as Joe Klein reports from Baghdad, convincing a skeptical congress is another story
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BAGHDAD -- On his first visit to Iraq since the United States accelerated combat operations, Marine General Peter Pace is seeing the strain on American troops.
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BAGHDAD -- Three months after the start of the security plan that has added thousands of American and Iraqi troops to the capital, they control fewer than one-third of the city's neighborhoods, far short of the initial goal for the operation, according to some commanders and an internal military assessment.