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On December 29, US troops surrounded a Sioux encampment at Wounded Knee Creek, and massacred Chief Big Foot and 300 prisoners of war, using a new rapid-fire weapon that fired exploding shells, called a Hotchkiss gun.
Would you like to see foreign troops on your land?"
And before we know it, they send in the tanks and they send in the troops.
Why have we got 130,000 troops on the ground?
But in those early days when we're told we didn't have enough troops and enough resources, we made a lot of progress in Afghanistan.
And the same is true for the troops.
But it is a place where the putting-in of the troops has increased the violence rather than decreased it.
So the idea that we deployed the troops to respond to the Taliban insurgency is mistaken.
But that slowness, that caution, the fact that President Clinton initially said that American troops would only be deployed for a year, turned out to be a strength, and it helped us to put our priorities right.
In the autumn of 1944, the darkest days of World War II, German troops blockaded Western Holland, turning away all shipments of food.
It helped a local, Lech Walesa, to kick out one million Soviet troops from Poland, and in beginning the end of the Soviet Union as we know it.
How many Chinese troops are serving under the blue beret, serving under the blue flag, serving under the U.N. command in the world today?
When I first came to Afghanistan in 2005 as a foreign minister, I met the commander of ISAF, the international troops.
As the highest military commander of the Netherlands, with troops stationed around the world, I'm really honored to be here today.
Hitler's troops marched on, and there was nothing my father could do about it.
All of Napoleon's troops were fed with silver utensils, Napoleon himself with gold utensils.
So the training of the troops has to change.
We should send peacekeeping troops to serve those who are facing a civil war.
I fear that these changes will not last much beyond the U.S. troops' withdrawal.
SP: You don't put 150,000 troops in there, and say we're there to create democracy.
Did you know that, in Iraq and Afghanistan, there were more private military contractors on the ground than there were U.S. military troops?
"As if long-prepared, as if courageous, as it becomes you who were worthy of such a city, approach the window with a firm step, and with emotion, but not with the entreaties or the complaints of a coward, as a last enjoyment, listen to the sounds, the exquisite instruments of the musical troops, and bid her farewell, the Alexandria you are losing."
On that day, a column of American and Afghan troops were making their way through a part of Afghanistan to help protect a group of government officials, a group of Afghan government officials, who would be meeting with some local village elders.
This took place in Egypt in January 2011, and as President Hosni Mubarak attempted a desperate move to quash the rising revolution on the streets of Cairo, he sent his personal troops down to Egypt's Internet service providers and had them physically kill the switch on the country's connection to the world overnight.
As winner of the civil war and commander of the most troops, it was his duty to restore law and order to Rome so that other factions didn’t continue fighting.
He personally financed a network of roads and employed couriers so news and troops could travel easily throughout the realm.
And when I hear headlines like that now, I think that as international troops leave Afghanistan this year and beyond, we must continue to care about what happens to people there, to all of the Maria Bashirs.
In Vietnam, 20 percent of all American troops were using loads of heroin, and if you look at the news reports from the time, they were really worried, because they thought, my God, we're going to have hundreds of thousands of junkies on the streets of the United States when the war ends; it made total sense.
So again, they don't have to be weight; they could be a general trying to move troops, and he's got to move an aircraft carrier versus a little boat.
Highlighted in blue, she showed how most troops' deaths could have been prevented.
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