All troop deployment orders must be approved by Mr. Gates, with the separate armed services then assigned to supply specific numbers of troops and equipment.
But an assessment of troop deployment orders indicates a plan to send sizable heavy forces through Turkey and into Iraq, while keeping the number of American troops within Turkey at any one time within a cap set by the Turkish government.
When a TV reporter who presumably knew better asked, "Are there any new troop-deployment orders you could comment upon?" the reply was "Any announcement of deployment orders concerning forces of the United States will come from the Department of Defense".
In addition to the regiment's 4,700 troops, the deployment order also dispatched about 15,000 other Army forces to the region, a Pentagon official said.
A few days later, President Obama announced that he would extend the American troop deployment, into its fifteenth year, in order to shore up the Afghan government.
Mr. Tenet notes that his "slam dunk" remarks came "10 months after the president saw the first workable war plan for Iraq," and "two weeks after the Pentagon had issued the first military deployment order sending U.S. troops to the region".
The Pentagon rejected the request over concerns that Trump's initial deployment order did not give troops the legal power to use force in assisting law enforcement within the United States, officials said.
Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld signed a mammoth deployment order today sending about 35,000 new troops, half of them marines, to the Persian Gulf region, Pentagon and military officials said.
The Army Special Forces Command at Fort Bragg, N.C., confirmed receiving a deployment order, but declined to say how many troops were involved.
JODL: It was precisely on the basis of this conversation-when I protested that it was quite impossible to carry out a troop deployment at that time for it would take 4 months-that the Fuehrer ordered that these deployment arrangements were to be improved.
