Word: redeploy
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...problem as you've stated it is generally accurate, but your memo does not accurately capture the magnitude of the problem. Furthermore, I just can't believe you didn't know that Franks's and McKiernan's staffs had pulled out and that the orders had been issued to redeploy the forces...
...send up to 1,000 troops to eastern Afghanistan, made before this summit and confirmed on Thursday, has alleviated immediate concerns over a fracture in the Alliance. Canada has threatened to withdraw its forces from the dangerous zone around Kandahar; the French move should allow the U.S. to redeploy more troops from the east to Kandahar and other hot spots. For Air Chief Marshall Jock Stirrup, the head of Britain's armed forces, this "sends a very important signal ... It's not just that the French are sending more troops, but it is to a very difficult area...
...threatening to pull out of Afghanistan if NATO did not produce additional reinforcements for operations in the south of the country, though it has since agreed to extend beyond 2009. To keep pace with increasing demand, Britain is being forced to keep its troops in place for longer and redeploy them sooner. Says Bastian Giegerich, an analyst at London's International Institute for Strategic Studies, "There's thinking about how training might have to happen on a faster schedule ... This is not good for morale...
...true that the Governor was lucky, it's also true that luck favors the well-prepared. Schwarzenegger was able to move those National Guard troops quickly because he had a plan in place to redeploy them in an emergency. The obvious competence of the emergency response - in stark contrast to the debacle of Hurricane Katrina - was the product of years of training, planning and drills...
...fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations and military adviser to President Bush, in interview with the Sunday Times of London on Aug. 19. General Jack Keane, who is advising General Petraeus, told the BBC that U.S. forces needed in the central part of Iraq may be forced to redeploy if British troops depart. In his Aug. 22 radio interview, he said that the U.K. had "never had enough forces to truly protect the people" in the British zone of operations and that the situation around Basra "has been gradually deteriorating with the breakout of almost gangland warfare...