"drawdown schedule" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It usually refers to a schedule used to gradually decrease an amount of funds or resources over a period of time. For example, "We have set up a drawdown schedule for the company's budget that will reduce expenditures by 10% over the next year."
Because such metrics would undermine the General's recent claims of progress, which Petraeus cannot afford right now because he is under the gun to prove the war is winnable in order to retain more troops in country for a longer period of time, and avoid an acceleration of the drawdown scheduled to begin midsummer.
Under Obama's surge-and-drawdown schedule, however, the general only had 18 months to turn things around.
The American military drawdown is scheduled to come as Afghanistan turns to electing a new president, compounding fears that there will not be a peaceful transition of power.
The campaign is also the only occasion Nato will be able to wage an offensive with the full weight of President Obama's troop surge, before Nato forces begin a scheduled drawdown next year.
Yet even if the Afghans relent on a residual US military presence, US intelligence officials believe the war's gains are likely to evaporate within a few years of 2014's scheduled drawdown.
The new U.S. commander in Afghanistan, Gen. David Petraeus, says that the drawdown of U.S. troops scheduled to start in July 2011 will be influenced by conditions on the ground.
"What is important is that with the election law, we are very much on schedule for the drawdown," he said.
Pelosi told Huffington Post: "I did consistently hear that the timetable was on schedule to have serious drawdown".
Today Iraq's government passed a politically controversial new election law allowing parliamentary elections to take place in January and also keeping a drawdown of US combat forces on schedule.
The tight schedule set for US military drawdown by President Obama means there is no time to lose.
