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But back in America, the belief that the surge “worked” is now leading many to argue that more troops are needed in Afghanistan.
Now, more than ever, we must believe this, for Russian troops wearing Ukrainian uniforms have entered our country, because Ukrainian soldiers are refusing to carry out orders to crush those who are demonstrating to defend our democracy.
The days and nights ahead will be difficult, and the secret presence of Russian troops will make them all the more dangerous.
While about 8,000 of the 20,000 US troops in Afghanistan operate independently, the rest have joined the most ambitious military venture in NATO’s history, the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF).
Each of the 26 NATO allies has troops in Afghanistan, as do 11 other countries.
The bad news is that the 40,000 foreign troops in Afghanistan are not enough.
Several countries, including NATO allies, have imposed “national caveats” that limit where their troops can be deployed or the tasks they undertake.
So, before any operation, commanders must determine which troops can take part and in what capacity, hampering both efficiency and effectiveness.
Firm commitments at Riga of more allied troops and equipment for the ISAF and fewer national “caveats” must be part of the answer.
Even though 19 of NATO’s 26 members also belong to the EU, leaders and bureaucrats in most of these countries have been unwilling to back the commitment of their troops with the economic resources needed.
Indeed, the US has ended up indirectly allied with Hezbollah, a key Iranian proxy, which is fighting alongside Assad’s troops against foreign jihadi forces.
But for the past two decades the division of Cyprus has been physical and military, ever since the Turkish government in 1974 sent troops to the north, and helped create a separate so-called Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus (TRNC).
Street-fighting will need to be done by those targeted by air bombardment: Saddam's elite troops.
Of course, the troops may be made invulnerable to bombing by being billeted among the civilian population, but armored vehicles and artillery cannot be hidden in apartment houses.
Saddam's security system for Baghdad includes the Special Republican Guard, whose 16,000 men are Iraq's most disciplined, best equipped troops.
Baghdad's long suffering population, with its majority of alienated Shi'ites and a million disaffected Kurds, is unlikely to remain unmoved by the imminent arrival of US and British troops.
Tens of thousands of troops from the EU’s member states have been deployed outside of their home countries in Sierra Leone, Congo, Ivory Coast, Chad, Lebanon, and Afghanistan.
In many places, torture chambers are the rules of the game, not the grotesque and shameful mistakes of ill-supervised troops.
But what if Spain - and Europe as a whole - had reacted in the opposite way to the Madrid train bombing of April, saying: "We promise that because of that slaughter we will double our support for stabilization in Iraq by sending twice as many troops, experts, engineers, teachers, policemen, doctors, and billions of euros in support of allied forces and their Iraqi co-workers."
One can expect that NATO’s devastating airstrikes on Qaddafi’s forces will soon be forgotten in the heroic retelling of the intrepid rebel troops’ advance to Tripoli.
In fact, almost immediately after Trump’s announcement on the JCPOA, Iranian troops stationed in Syria reportedly fired rockets into Israel.
Words demanding that Russian troops leave Hungarian territory culminated in the collapse of the communist regime.
After the speech I was reproached for my demand that Soviet troops leave our country.
Developed after the 2001 attack on the Indian Parliament, the doctrine calls for Indian troops to move rapidly to occupy 300-500 square kilometers of Pakistani territory in the event of another terrorist attack.
Nevertheless, at the NATO Summit in Chicago at the end of May, Hollande will confirm his pledge to withdraw French troops from Afghanistan by the end of 2012, two years ahead of the NATO timetable (though he recognizes the need to negotiate the practical details).
If it played its cards right, it could even end the US alliance with South Korea and Japan, with all US troops withdrawing from East Asia.
The records contained firsthand accounts of the anger felt by Americans at the ISI’s unwillingness to confront the insurgents, in particular those who were attacking US and NATO troops near the Pakistani border.
Finally, the late British Foreign Secretary Robin Cook insisted that British troops among the NATO forces occupying post-war Bosnia should be responsible for making such arrests.
The war began when troops under the command of President Salva Kiir began attacking and killing members of the Nuer ethnic group, in the South Sudan capital of Juba.
Much of the army sympathized with Machar, but in January 2014, Uganda sent troops into South Sudan to prevent Kiir’s downfall (a claim the Ugandan government initially denied).
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