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The tight schedule set for US military drawdown by President Obama means there is no time to lose.

Speaking on Sky News World News Tonight, Sir Jeremy dampened expectations of a drawdown by US and British forces in the new year.

The Obama administration hopes to begin withdrawing forces within months and to complete a drawdown by 2014 (a plan reiterated by Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates in Afghanistan this week).

Re "The Pentagon's Financial Drawdown," by Gordon R. England (Op-Ed, July 15): The president's proposed reduction of $400 billion in Pentagon spending over a decade should not be referred to as a "cut".

However, within this, complaints about income drawdown – by which an individual takes a regular income from his or her pension pot each year – leapt by 87.8% to 1,341, compared with 714 during the previous six months.

President Obama has committed to one of them: a gradual drawdown by 2014, accepting three more years of sacrifice in blood and expenditure (on a declining slope, it is hoped), in the expectation that Afghan forces can be built up to hold off the Taliban, protect civilians, and prevent civil war, which would almost certainly spill into Pakistan, making things there even worse.

In fact, the number of total jobs cut is considerably higher -- almost 400,000 -- but two-thirds of them are military workers whose jobs were eliminated by the military drawdown brought by the end of the cold war.

Until recently, the Obama administration was considering a range of options, from drawing down the number of troops by 30,000 by June 2013, to a more gradual drawdown, proposed by General John Allen, which would leave between 6,000-15,000 troops in country after formal combat operations end.

Since the groundwater drawdown induced by pumping can be controlled by artificial recharge, soil compression can be relieved by reducing the changes of effective stress of the soils.

His remarks were tempered with enough caveats, however, to suggest that the July drawdown promised by President Obama could be minor.

In the case of pressure drawdown followed by pressure build-up, the results for fracture permeability might be different.