Leave your feedback Share Copy URL https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/u-s-troop-increase-underway-in-baghdad Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Pinterest Tumblr Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Transcript The influx of 21,500 more American troops in Baghdad, part of President Bush's new Iraq strategy, is already starting to take place. Two journalists detail the troop surge and its effectiveness in the Iraqi capital. Read the Full Transcript Notice: Transcripts are machine and human generated and lightly edited for accuracy. They may contain errors. JUDY WOODRUFF: An additional 21,500 U.S. soldiers and Marines are in Iraq or on their way. We get two perspectives on the buildup. Ann Scott Tyson covers the Pentagon for the Washington Post. And author and New Yorker writer George Packer is just back from Iraq.Ann Scott Tyson, let's begin with you. Let's talk about how this worked. It's not as if there's a pot of 21,500 troops who are being moved to Iraq. Explain for our audience how you get this buildup? ANN SCOTT TYSON, Washington Post: Well, Judy, it's actually — you should think of it in terms of an overlapping. What you have is about 17,500 troops, additionally, headed to Baghdad, and about another 4,000 Marines that are headed to Anbar province, which is a Sunni stronghold in western Iraq.But that's not done automatically, as you implied. It's done by extending some forces. And they've extended one brigade in Iraq already, of the Army. And they've extended about 4,000 Marines for Anbar.Then it also comes by accelerating the flow of troops that were going to go to Iraq eventually. And the ones that are being accelerated are the 82nd Airborne, which already has a brigade active in Baghdad. And over the next several months, through May, about every month you will have one additional Army brigade flowing into Baghdad, but that's going to happen, again, about one brigade a month.