The phrase "an increase in troops" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing military matters, such as deployments, reinforcements, or changes in military strategy.
Example: "The government announced an increase in troops to bolster security in the region."
Alternatives: "a rise in personnel" or "an augmentation of forces".
However, he disappointed many MPs by not announcing an increase in troops in the Falklands.
In Kabul, an increase in troops was generally seen as a gesture of welcome strength.
He said the Bush administration did not act on a request for an increase in troops for Afghanistan for seven months.
The success — or failure — of drug-control efforts is critical to President Obama's plan for Afghanistan, where he hopes an increase in troops will deliver a blow to the resurgent militants of the Taliban and Al Qaeda.
Administration officials have been coy on a central part of the Kagan-Keane plan - that an increase in troops has to be, in their words, "long and large", lasting for at least 18 months.
LONDON — In an echo of the American tug of war over troop levels in Afghanistan, Britain's recently retired top general said in an interview published Tuesday that Prime Minister Gordon Brown's government had repeatedly rebuffed his own military's calls for an increase in troops.
It was a time so violent that President George W. Bush ordered an increase in troop levels to retake the initiative.
Bush administration officials have said repeatedly that an increase in troop levels has reduced violence to the point that political and sectarian reconciliation is becoming a reality.
But many foreign-policy experts believe that, even without an increase in troop levels in the coming months, Bush may yet succeed in delaying the day of reckoning until the next President takes office.
In the next 2 1/2 years, there were only two times when the Guard's weekly reports to the Pentagon failed to show an increase in troop strength from the previous week.
