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Chief of the (Australian) Defence Force Peter Cosgrove denies the coalition has made a strategic error in the number of troops it has used in initial attacks on Iraq. The Pentagon says plans are underway to send in at least another 100,000 United States soldiers. But Gen Cosgrove has told Sky television the reinforcement does not mean there has been a lack of planning. "I mean you look at the marvellous rapidity of the campaign to date and the relatively small loss of life on all three sides," he said. "And by that I mean coalition forces and Iraqi military...