Sentence examples for a drawdown to from inspiring English sources

Obama doubled-down by committing tens of thousands more troops to show he was no wimp, only to set a date for a drawdown to show he was no warmonger.

The official said a drawdown to roughly 10 brigades would enable the Army to give many soldiers at least a year at home for every year they are deployed, an objective of Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates.

If history is any indication, this would not be the first time Mr. Putin has used a military drawdown to resolve a deadlocked political scene such as the one in Syria.

In Connecticut, for example, Joseph I. Lieberman -- who was one of only six Senate Democrats to vote against a June resolution calling for a troop drawdown to start this year -- is battling an antiwar challenger who is trying to deny him the party's nomination for a fourth term.

That all suggests that if Speaker Pelosi is "serious" herself, she ought not to limit her efforts to support a "serious drawdown" to giving an interview in the Huffington Post.

By the end of this year, the United States will remove more than 23,000 troops from Afghanistan, beginning a protracted drawdown to at least nominally end more than a decade of overseas wars that have killed nearly 7,000 US service members and left thousands more wounded, disabled, and traumatized.

That has raised anxieties among American officials and military commanders presiding over what the Obama administration calls a "responsible drawdown" to end the American war here.

"The president made it clear that he wants a meaningful drawdown to start in July," said one of the officials, who, like the others, spoke on the condition of anonymity to share internal discussions.

If not, the report argues that "a more significant drawdown to a narrower military mission would be warranted".

If there is not such progress, concludes the report, then "a more significant drawdown to a narrower military mission would be warranted".

It doesn't sound like a drawdown meant to bring the number below where it was before Obama's escalation.