In Pentagon, a rift over U.S. troop cuts in Iraq
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While General Petraeus is in no hurry for more than five brigades to leave, Secretary Gates weighs a bigger drawdown.
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The Bush administration is split over the idea of a surge in troops to Iraq, with White House officials aggressively promoting the concept over the unanimous disagreement of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, according to U.S. officials familiar with the intense debate.
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Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates and a senior U.S. commander said yesterday that they favor a protracted U.S. troop presence in Iraq along the lines of the military stabilization force in South Korea.
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The top US commander in Iraq considers cutting troop numbers by about 4,000, media reports say.
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Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates sought to defuse a row between a top Pentagon aide and Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton yesterday over her request for details of plans to withdraw U.S. troops from Iraq.
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The defense secretary, speaking in Kuwait to troops deploying into Iraq, heard complaints about poor combat equipment, personnel policies and other issues that reflect the strains the war in the Middle East is placing on the U.S. military.
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Military statistics show that U.S. forces have made some headway at protecting the Iraqi population, but there are questions over whether the gains can be sustained.
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FORT LEAVENWORTH, Kan. -- When Lieutenant General David Petraeus was reassigned last year from a top command in Iraq to this sprawling Army complex in the heartland where new leaders are trained, many in the military saw it as a move to sideline a potential critic from Pentagon decision-making.
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Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld heard an earful Wednesday from troops scheduled to deploy from Kuwait to Iraq. The soldiers complained about poor combat equipment, personnel
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The U.S. military expects to decide  within a week whether to withhold 15 percent of bills paid to  Halliburton Co. HAL.N for work in Iraq, an Army spokeswoman  said Wednesday, as Democrats cried foul over why the Army was  flip-flopping on the issue.
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The Bush administration struggled Tuesday to explain what it knows about alleged Iranian interference in Iraq after the Pentagon's top general appeared to contradict a recently released military dossier on the subject.
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The Pentagon is engaged in bitter debate over how far it should go in managing information to influence opinion abroad.
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Army Gen. David Petraeus, the top  U.S. commander in Iraq, faced criticism from a Democratic  presidential contender on Tuesday over America&#39;s war strategy.
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Two years after shutting what  critics called a deceptive propaganda office, the Pentagon is  embroiled in a new high-level debate over how to polish the  fading U.S. image abroad, defense officials said on Monday.
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The U.S. military is delaying the   departure of thousands of soldiers from Iraq while speeding the   arrival of thousands more as a way to keep more troops on the   ground to handle unrelenting violence, the Pentagon said on   Monday.
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Republican misgivings over President Bush's new war strategy are increasingly dividing the GOP as the Senate moves toward a showdown over the deployment of 21,500 additional troops to Iraq.
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The Iraq war has strained U.S. forces to the point where they could not fight another large-scale war, according to a survey of military officers.