>Кто-нибудь знает какие-либо конкретные факты переброски войск в Залив?
Да только этот ползучий "всплеск" в Ираке. Буш говорил о 20000 в своём обращении, а сейчас раздулось уже под 30 тыс и ещё просят подбросить в провинцию Дияла к северу от Багдада (где вертушкам не летается).
Пока арифметика такая 21500 боевых + 7000 вспомогательных (из них 1500 MP). Но уже намекают, что надо бы довести до 15-28 тыс число вспомогательных.
The forces for the surge plan alone, announced at 21,500 by the President in January, are already creeping toward 30,000. Recently, the administration "clarified" all this in a piecemeal sort of way. Deputy Secretary of Defense Gordon England explained to Congress that the surge combat units might well need up to 7,000 more support troops. He suggested this in rejecting "a recent estimate by the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office that the surge would require an additional 15,000-28,000 support personnel." (Keep that figure in the back of your mind, as surge creep continues.) Then Lt. Gen. Petraeus requested 2,200 extra military police for all the detainees he plans to pick up in sweeps of Baghdad neighborhoods. The President signed off on them this week. Whether they are part of those up to 7,000 support troops or not remains foggy; meanwhile Maj. Gen. Benjamin R. Mixon, the commander of American forces outside the surge zone in Northern Iraq, just called for reinforcements for Diyala Province where attacks have risen 30 percent.
