Possible Clues:

• Plan to remove your name from?
• It's the turn of the editor to put his name to such a plan (6)
• Draft
• Sketch, outline
• Sketch a plan
• Plan to get the soldiers back in the end, somehow
• Signed off on plan
• The purpose of French to communicate non-verbally
• Plan withdrawal of US troops in retreat
• Plan to bring back soldiers in retreat