INEVITABLY NOT ENOUGH. I’ll leave it to my fellow TAPers to do the deep analysis of the pre-buzz on Gen. Petraeus‘ report, but the Washington Post is reporting some limited support for the draw-down of one brigade this winter, or no more than 4,500 troops: “Petraeus’s recommendations could fall on the conservative side of preferences among U.S. military planners, with the Joint Chiefs and Adm. William J. Fallon, head of the U.S. Central Command, concerned about the drain on U.S. forces and the heavy focus on Iraq, U.S. officials say.”

–Dana Goldstein

Dana Goldstein, a former associate editor and writer at the Prospect, comes from a family of public-school educators. She received the Spencer Fellowship in Education Journalism, a Schwarz Fellowship at the New America Foundation, and a Puffin Foundation Writing Fellowship at the Nation Institute. Her journalism is regularly featured in Slate, The Atlantic, The Nation, The Daily Beast, and other publications, and she is a staff writer at the Marshall Project.