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Deputy Defense Secretary Gordon England and Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Eric Edelman have already announced that they plan to depart by January 20.

The DOD "instruction," issued on July 16, 2008 by James Clapper, Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence, aims to address the growing unease in the national security community over the shift of the U.

Embassy to Israel _ David Satterfield, senior adviser to the secretary of state and coordinator for Iraq _ Stephen Hadley, national security adviser to President Bush _ Elliott Abrams, deputy assistant to the president and deputy national security adviser for global democracy strategy affairs _ Kenneth Pollack, former director for Persian Gulf affairs for the National Security Council _ Paul Wolfowitz, former deputy secretary of defense _ Douglas Feith, former undersecretary of defense _ Michael Makovsky, former employee of the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Office of Near East and South Asia _ Lawrence Franklin, former Department of Defense employee

has been named to the Defense Science Board by Undersecretary of Defense E.

Undersecretary of Defense for Personnel David Chu, however, rejects the notion that only after Rumseld's departure was the Pentagon able to move forward with a permanent troop increase.