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General Says Army Will Need To Grow

General Says Army Will Need To Grow – washingtonpost.com: 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 […]

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One senior Republican senator has called it Alice in Wonderland.

BBC NEWS | Americas | Bush ‘to reveal Iraq troop boost’: Bush ‘to reveal Iraq troop boost’ By Justin Webb BBC News, Washington US President George W Bush intends to reveal a new Iraq strategy within days, the BBC has learnt. The speech will reveal a plan to send more US troops to Iraq to […]

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Few Iraqis Are Gaining U.S. Sanctuary – New York Times

Few Iraqis Are Gaining U.S. Sanctuary – New York Times: By SABRINA TAVERNISE and ROBERT F. WORTH BAGHDAD, Jan. 1 — With thousands of Iraqis desperately fleeing this country every day, advocates for refugees, and even some American officials, say there is an urgent need to allow more Iraqi refugees into the United States. Until […]

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Former U.S. Detainee in Iraq Recalls Torment

Former U.S. Detainee in Iraq Recalls Torment – New York Times: December 18, 2006 Former U.S. Detainee in Iraq Recalls Torment By MICHAEL MOSS One night in mid-April, the steel door clanked shut on detainee No. 200343 at Camp Cropper, the United States military’s maximum-security detention site in Baghdad. American guards arrived at the man’s […]

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Army is unlikely to be able to meet the next rotation of troops in Iraq without undesirable changes in its deployment practices

HaloScan.com – Comments: Didn’t hear anything yet in the mainstream media about this snippet from the ISG report: “The Army is unlikely to be able to meet the next rotation of troops in Iraq without undesirable changes in its deployment practices. The Army is now considering breaking its compact with the National Guard and Reserves […]