Sentence examples for reduce troop levels from inspiring English sources

"Has it allowed us to reduce troop levels to below where they were when it started?" Michael Kinsley wrote recently.

One wonders if it might be easier to reduce troop levels by reducing them rather than by raising them.

It is similar to what Mr. Gates put in place last fall, before General Petraeus announced the decision to reduce troop levels from their peak of 20 brigades.

Still, General Petraeus is expected to disclose plans to reduce troop levels in mid-December with the withdrawal of a combat brigade.

The American commander in Iraq, Gen. Ray Odierno, has said he will review how quickly to reduce troop levels 30 to 60 days after Iraq's national elections.

The move is part of the president's plan to reduce troop levels to what they were before the "surge" added 30,000 this year.

The Obama administration is now considering reducing troop levels in Afghanistan by at least 20,000 by 2013, and possibly even deeper, according to Helene Cooper and Eric Schmitt of The Times.

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.

In June 2005, he stunned his party establishment by appearing at a news conference with Mr. Paul and Representative Dennis Kucinich, a liberal Ohio Democrat, to call on Mr. Bush to start reducing troop levels in Iraq.

And it raises questions about whether the administration is seeking a rationale for reducing troop levels as scheduled starting next summer even if the counterinsurgency strategy does not show significant progress by then.

The admiral did not offer a specific timetable for reducing troop levels in Iraq, which is expected to be a central part of the recommendations presented to President Bush over coming weeks by Admiral Fallon, Gen. David H. Petraeus, the senior commander in Iraq, and the Joint Chiefs of Staff.