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April 19, 2010
Right about now. are you going to be able to ramp up the withdrawal of u.s. forces. you have about 99,000 and you have to get down to 50,000 by the end of august. are you going to be able to ramp up the withdrawal given the uncertainty about the political situation? >> chris, i think it is appropriate in time for us to get down to our transition force in order for us to conduct stability operations. we are about 95,000 today. over the last year, iraqi security forces have slowly taken over more ...
April 18, 2010
Right about now. are you going to be able to ramp up the withdrawal of u.s. forces. you have about 99,000 and you have to get down to 50,000 by the end of august. are you going to be able to ramp up the withdrawal given the uncertainty about the political situation? >> chris, i think it is appropriate in time for us to get down to our transition force in order for us to conduct stability operations. we are about 95,000 today. over the last year, iraqi security forces have slowly taken over more ...
April 18, 2010
Right about now. are you going to be able to ramp up the withdrawal of u.s. forces. you have about 99,000 and you have to get down to 50,000 by the end of august. are you going to be able to ramp up the withdrawal given the uncertainty about the political situation? >> chris, i think it is appropriate in time for us to get down to our transition force in order for us to conduct stability operations. we are about 95,000 today. over the last year, iraqi security forces have slowly taken over more ...
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Active duty soldiers which the army had planned to reduce to 490,000. however, the strategic choices in management review and the qdr both determined that since we are no longer sizing the force for prolonged stability operations, an army of this size is larger than required to meet the demandings of our defense strategy. given the reduced budgets it is also larger than we can afford to modernize and keep ready. we have decided to further reduce active army duty strength to a range of 440 to 450...