U.S. Army Conducts Responsible Drawdown of Forces in Iraq,Prepares for Future

摘要

By the time Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) ended and Operation New Dawn began, the Army had already succeeded in closing hundreds of Forward Operating Bases (FOBs), removing thousands of troops, and drawing down vast amounts of equipment in Iraq. "We had a very good plan going into the operation, a plan produced at every level of command. We knew from the beginning that one of the important things would be metrics, so we could measure our progress and know quickli if we were off track. We developed metrics for a number of things: how many bases were closed, how many Soldiers remained in Iraq, how many vehicles were retrograded, etc.," said LTG Mitchell H. Stevenson, Deputy Chief of Staff, G-4.