Sentence examples for future troops from inspiring English sources

For the foreseeable future, troops must be schooled in counterinsurgency and stability operations as well as more traditional fighting.

In the US, the steady withering of social programmes that might nurture future troops even serves, ironically, to justify increased military spending.

In the early 2000s, he served in Operation Iraqi Freedom, building forward operating bases and clearing the path for future troops.

The United States and Iraq have suddenly agreed to a "general time horizon" for future troop reductions.

Many military planners are looking at future troop levels in Iraq, for different reasons.

In negotiations on the future troop presence, both sides were initially focused on concluding a long-term security agreement.

Planners would present best-case, moderate-case, and worst-case scenarios, in an effort to assess where the Iraq war was headed and to estimate future troop needs.

Mr. Bush announced no final decision on future troop levels after the video briefing by the commander, Gen. David H. Petraeus, and the diplomat, Ambassador Ryan C. Crocker.

The Pentagon has said little about future troop levels, although some military planners have sketched out their own plans for a possible reduction by next year.

But administration officials said that the American proposal specifically did not set future troop levels in Iraq or ask for permanent American bases there.

The subject of future troop levels is certain to be an important part of President Bush's two-day war cabinet meeting, which will start Monday at Camp David.