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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.

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.

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.

General Allen, 59, has "been under a tremendous amount of pressure, a lot of challenges," Mr. Panetta said, citing the demands of commanding a complex counterinsurgency effort, as well as the effort to compose recommendations to Mr. Obama on reducing troop levels in Afghanistan.

In the latest New York Times/CBS News poll, 56percentt of Americans said they favored reducing troops levels in Iraq, but leaving some forces in place to train Iraqi forces, fight terrorists and protect American diplomats.

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

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

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.