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President Obama announced he will withdraw the “surge” force of 33,000 US troops by the summer of 2012. The plan calls for 10,000 troops to be withdrawn by the end of this year, and another 23,000 troops by September 2012.

Bill Roggio is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and the Editor of FDD's Long War Journal.

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