Its main success has been in co-ordinating its members' positions in arms-control negotiations over the issue of Russian troop levels.
The UK has said its own troop numbers will be almost halved over the course of this year to 5, 200.
The Arizona senator took his fellow veteran to task over remarks he made once that the 2006 Iraq troop surge would be "the most dangerous foreign policy blunder in this country since Vietnam".
As part of the preparations for a US troop withdrawal, American forces are handing over hundreds of detainees to the Iraqi authorities - including some of those sought by the kidnappers - in a process that was supposed to be completed by the end of this year but will take a bit longer.
But the organisation's struggle over whether or not to accept openly gay members and troop leaders has left the Tessier brothers frustrated.
Despite a handful of success stories like the Stryker troop carrier, the service seems to make the same mistakes over and over again by expecting industry to deliver revolutionary results for evolutionary prices.
Civilian deaths have dropped by 72 percent since July 2007, and American and Iraqi troop losses have dropped by 72 and 70 percent over the same period, the report said.
Mr. WONG: In Washington we're seeing a debate about troop draw-down levels for the Americans and how quickly to hand over security and whether even to increase the level of American troops here by, say, as much as 20, 000 over the short term.
Long before their disagreement over Iraq, he and Rumsfeld had clashed over Rumsfeld's belief that high-tech warfare gave the Pentagon leeway to reduce overall American troop strength.
In particular, Obama pushed for revisions in proposed plans for troop increases to clarify how and when U.S. troops would turn over responsibility to the Afghan government, the official said.
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Abizaid has warned that a troop surge might placate targeted areas in the short run but could leave U.S. forces over-extended and less capable in the summer months that would follow.
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