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The biggest costs in Iraq are not for reconstruction but for US troops.
America is paying an astounding $51 billion per year to station 140,000 troops in the country, a staggering cost of around $360,000 per soldier per year.
The US could save itself tens of billions of dollars per year by withdrawing its troops from Iraq.
The US has to make clear that it plans to withdraw its troops quickly and entirely.
Whenever troops from either side build roads, construct or repair bunkers and other fortifications, or conduct patrols close to the LAC, tensions can flare.
I need the further engagement of your troops in Afghanistan!”
So, two years after Kosovo’s independence, and a year after Russian troops wrenched Abkhazia and South Ossetia from Georgia, it is high time for diplomats and statesmen to provide some guidelines as to when and in what circumstances secession is likely to be acceptable.
Had Clinton tried to send US troops, he would have encountered stiff resistance in Congress.
Airstrikes against the Islamic State might unseat the group’s fighters in critical areas; but, as things stand, troops will be needed to hold and govern liberated territory.
In the two years following the withdrawal of US troops, then-Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, like Diem four decades earlier, set about consolidating political power through patronage.
Later, the NTC was unable to impose discipline on the myriad militias that formed to fight Qaddafi’s troops, or even to direct foreign weapons efficiently to the fledgling Libyan National Army.
Turkey and Syria still have border disputes; for many Syrians, scenes of Turkish troops crossing the border, even behind lines of Syrian opposition fighters, would rally nationalist pride and strengthen Assad’s narrative of foreign-inspired terrorism and insurgency.
If that strategy fails, Turkey and Arab League states would have to contemplate sending in ground troops, with extensive logistical and intelligence support from NATO.
Australia’s willingness to send troops into Timor-Leste in 1999, again under a UN mandate, may have not only saved that country, but helped transform Indonesia as well.
Likewise, Brazil’s decision to send troops into Haiti in 2004 as part of a UN Stabilization Force burnished the country’s image as a responsible regional power.
In Africa, Nigerian troops have often played a critical role under the mandate of either the African Union or the Economic Community of West African States.
The UN acknowledges the problem but is (rightly) unwilling to risk sending forestry experts into a tribal region where American and allied troops venture only in armored convoys.
President Vladimir Putin’s pretense that Russian troops were not participating in the fighting was all but shattered recently, when a Russian fighter in Donetsk confirmed to the BBC Russian service that they are playing a decisive role in rebel advances.
If he pushes them too far, Trump may be a general with few troops.
The Pakhtun-led insurgency aims at expelling foreign troops and restoring Pakhtun dominance.
Complicating the situation, however, is the fact that the Haqqanis are operating out of North Waziristan, one of the tribal agencies located in the border area between Afghanistan and Pakistan, and is fiercely opposed to the presence of America and NATO troops in their country.
Germany is no longer an exception when it comes to public opinion, and European governments are united in their reluctance to send troops on the ground to separate Israel and Hezbollah.
But will France ultimately deliver i.e. send a significant amount of troops for the UN force set to police the peace in southern Lebanon?
By not doing so France would damage her credibility as a "serious country,” and her reputation for being a rare breed in Europe, a country that is not shy to intervene militarily with her troops.
Twice, it withdrew its troops unilaterally behind its recognized borders, namely from southern Lebanon and Gaza.
During World War II, Japanese troops may have murdered as many as ten million civilians in China, Korea, and elsewhere.
And in 1971, Pakistani troops and allied militias massacred up to three million Bangladeshi civilians to suppress the Bengali drive for independence.
Europe’s Military InjusticeLONDON – The cost of sending troops and military hardware around the world to provide security when and where it is needed is causing major financial headaches across Europe.
For NATO to work properly, its members must be prepared not only to supply troops and equipment for NATO-led military operations, but also to fund and sustain these operations until missions are completed.
All other expenses “lie where they fall”: the more troops and equipment a country contributes to a mission, the more it ends up paying.
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