Sentence examples for extra troop from inspiring English sources

Carter said Obama had approved the extra troop movements last week.

The president said that the extra troop numbers did not reflect a change in the US mission, which is officially to provide "training and support" to Afghan forces and conduct counter-terrorism missions, rather than engage in "major ground war".

It has become an article of faith among many in the US that the American military finally won the war in Iraq in 2007-08 because it adopted a new set of tactics and sent 30,000 extra troop reinforcements known as "the surge".

Petraeus got extra troops.

Thus, send in the (extra) troops.

(France may now send extra troops).

Just what mission the extra troops would perform is unspecified.

The extra troops would not necessarily be sent to Helmand.

They are not extra troops but drawn from existing forces.

The result was not providing extra troops for any contingencies.

"We have no intention of deploying extra troops.