Sentence examples for higher troop from inspiring English sources

Too slowly, the president and his team accept that a new strategy with higher troop levels is needed to calm the storm.

Some military analysts who have favored higher troop levels in Iraq in the past agreed that the current timetable still made sense.

The commander, Gen. David D. McKiernan, said the higher troop levels would help him during the traditional fighting season in the spring and the Afghan presidential election, scheduled for August, when there is expected to be more violence.

Senior NATO officials said Thursday that the allies were examining a new assistance package to Afghanistan that would last at least five years and keep the security forces at the higher troop level.

He notes that experts — who recommended higher troop levels in Iraq, warned about the consequences of disbanding the Iraqi Army or worried about the lack of postwar planning— were continually ignored by the White House and Pentagon leadership, or themselves failed, out of cowardice or blind loyalty, to press insistently their case for an altered course in the war.

She pushed for even higher troop levels than did President Obama.

That was done despite evidence obtained by Westmoreland's own headquarters staff that showed significantly higher troop-strength figures.

With neo-cons and Fox urging higher troops levels "to win" and the Pelosi-Frank Democratic wing saying the withdrawal is too slow -- and Speaker Boehner even largely supporting the President -- will this be an issue in the 2012 elections?

"Unless you are prepared to stay in Afghanistan with high troop levels for at least a decade, then an overt campaign to tackle corruption is a big mistake".

All three towns lie north of the main areas of the latest American offensives, supporting the notion that, as in numerous earlier operations, insurgent cells have flowed away from high troop concentrations, or affiliated cells have been activated in areas unaffected by those offensives.

But at their Baltimore meeting, the mayors were careful not to come down too hard on president Barack Obama, who has disappointed many liberals and progressives by maintaining high troop levels in Iraq and Afghanistan.