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Mr. Gates is to testify two weeks after Gen. David H. Petraeus, the top commander in Iraq, went before Congress to warn against a rapid reduction of troops in Iraq, and a week after a Democratic effort to limit troop rotations stumbled in the Senate.

To keep domestic consent for a long engagement we need to limit troop numbers and in particular limit our casualties.

The extension effectively cancels the Pentagon's plans for reducing troop levels to about 115,000, or lower, this spring, and breaks a department commitment last fall to limit troops' time to 12 months.

The current mandate limits troop numbers to 5,000 and expires early next year.

The terrain also limits troop movements while providing ideal grounds for ambushes.

The United States military indefinitely imposed tight restrictions on all personnel in Okinawa, limiting troops to bases, places of work or off-base housing, amid a furor over the arrest of a marine on suspicion of raping a junior high school girl on Feb. 10 and of several other marines on less serious charges since the weekend.

But for most in Congress, the current war debate effectively ended Wednesday, when a limit on troop rotations put forward by Senator Jim Webb, Democrat of Virginia, was torpedoed by Senator John W. Warner, a former backer and Mr. Webb's Republican colleague from the state.

Russia stopped co-operating with CFE limits on troop movements last year.

The difficulty is for the two countries to decide what number is suitable; their peace treaty limits Egyptian troop numbers in Sinai.

While contributing financially to UN peacekeeping operations, the UK has until recently limited its troop commitments to the 250 personnel in Cyprus.

The German foreign minister, Frank-Walter Steinmeier, told Bild that 1,200 was the upper limit for troops, deployed to allow the operation of aircraft and ships, and that they would not all be sent out at the same time.