Who Said “Sharp Reductions”
No one has said US forces in Iraq will “draw down sharply next year,” USAF Gen. Richard Myers, JCS Chairman, told the Pentagon press corps on Friday, bluntly rejecting the notion that any “senior commander” had said there would be “sharp reductions.” Myers, who recently returned from a 10-day trip visiting American forces overseas, said there is “a possibility” of a reduced US presence in Iraq, IF (he repeatedly emphasized the word) there is continued progress on the security and political front.
After years of describing to lawmakers and Pentagon leaders the nature of that threat and the key role spacepower plays in deterring conflict in the domain and enabling the rest of the joint force, Chief of Space Operations Gen. Chance Saltzman told reporters during AFA’s Warfare Symposium here that the message appears to…