Sentence examples for Major troops from inspiring English sources

With a major troops surge in 2007, the US and its partners set out on a new counterinsurgency strategy that actually seemed to work.

For the major troop contributors, there are rewards -- peacekeeping dividends, if you will.

But several outside officials said there was no evidence of major troop movements on either side.

Several senior American officials said they had not seen evidence of major troop movements.

The first major troop airlift in history, for example, brought his Army of Africa to mainland Spain.

Nigeria, a major troop contributor, has reportedly demanded the dismissal of the mission's military commander, Maj.

The troubled relationship has also hurt tentative American efforts to explore peace talks with Afghanistan's Taliban insurgents, as a major troop reduction scheduled for 2014 draws near.

The numbers have swelled as newly arrived forces overlapped with those scheduled to leave soon, as part of a major troop rotation.

But it has also drawn attention away from a pressing priority of the United States in Pakistan: engaging cooperation here to help negotiate a peace settlement with the Afghan Taliban as a major troop withdrawal slated for 2014 draws near.

But given the changed timetable, just as Iraqi political leaders are struggling to form a new government, American military leaders will be distracted by the myriad tasks of supervising major troop movements.

WASHINGTON — President Obama is exploring alternatives to a major troop increase in Afghanistan, including a plan advocated by Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. to scale back American forces and focus more on rooting out Al Qaeda there and in Pakistan, officials said Tuesday.