The plan also anticipates that a multinational division will be available by March to take over the role now played by the American 101st Airborne Division.
NATO is providing support for the Polish-led multinational division in Iraq.
Indeed, even now, a multinational division is assembling in southwestern Iraq to replace the United States Marines, who are scheduled to leave in early September.
Under the planning, the British would maintain a headquarters to command a multinational division to be based in Basra and elsewhere in southern Iraq.
The administration has failed to win new commitments of foreign troops for Iraq beyond the two multinational divisions serving there.
Ukraine's withdrawal punches a major and potentially fatal hole in the much-ballyhooed multinational division that Poland volunteered to lead in Iraq.
The administration continues to plead with countries like South Korea and Turkey to fill a third multinational division for Iraq.
Two multinational divisions, led by the British and the Poles, are serving alongside our forces.
And in order to share the burden more broadly, our commanders have requested a third multinational division to serve in Iraq.
NATO has no troops there, although it provided guidance this summer to a Polish-led multinational division in Iraq.