The Pentagon plans to lash up U.S. military personnel with Iraq's fledgling security force in a new, two-pronged approach to improve Iraqi combat effectiveness against insurgents by providing a wide range of support, including the ability to call for U.S. air strikes. The strategy -- which Pentagon officials say Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld recently briefed to President Bush -- calls for "embedding" select U.S. officers and enlisted personnel as advisers in Iraqi units and "partnering" U.S. battalions to work in...
