Sound strategy for shifting troops
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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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A US military unit that wouldn't make a risky delivery poses a challenge to discipline.
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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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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 Pentagon is drawing up a plan that would give the military a more prominent role in intelligence-collection operations.
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General Petraeus's drive against Sunni militants has got off to a much quicker start than past ones. But its success will depend on intelligence
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Coalition troops are employing a divide-and-conquer strategy in Fallujah, Iraq, capitalizing on months of pinpointed intelligence to seal off terrorist-held neighborhoods and then attack enemy pockets.
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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 winner of this year's competition in the classic computerized strategy game shows that a tactic based on cooperating with team members can succeed over one that relies on echoing rivals' moves. By Wendy M. Grossman.
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WASHINGTON -- A growing number of national security specialists who supported the toppling of Saddam Hussein are moving to a position unthinkable even a few months ago: that the large US military presence is impeding stability as much as contributing to it and that the United States should begin major reductions in troops beginning early next year.
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In the year since President Bush announced he was changing course in Iraq with a troop "surge" and a new strategy, U.S. military and diplomatic officials have begun their own quiet policy shift. After countless unsuccessful efforts to push Iraqis toward various political, economic and security go...
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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 Pentagon may have to boost the Army's size or call up more reserves to ease the war's burden.
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The U.S. strategy in Iraq, Marine Col. T.X. Hammes observed in a recent interview, is a three-step process. "Clear out the insurgents, build up the Iraqi security forces, and then develop and install local governments in preparation for national elections," said Hammes.
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Recommendations from the Iraq Study Group focus on three main components: shifting US troops to a training role and gradually withdrawal of most combat brigades; inviting Iraq's neighbors, including Iran and Syria, to help stabilize the country; and reducing support for Iraq's government if it does not make progress toward political reconciliation. Here is a look at the key factors ...
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An independent commission that studied the readiness of the Iraqi security forces called today for a "strategic shift" in Iraq, with U.S. forces reducing their massive "footprint" in the country and moving to what it called an "overwatch" posture focused on the borders with Iran and Syria.
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With Fort Benning preparing for its largest troop expansion since the Vietnam War, barber Anthony Brock figures he'll be giving a lot more GI haircuts, or at least he'll have a steady stream of customers even when major units deploy for combat.