But in Islamabad India complained that infiltration of fighters from Pakistan has increased in the past two months.Last week the Indian army said that, despite a 2003 ceasefire, which has mostly been honoured, it had lost a soldier due to shooting across the "line of control" that divides Kashmir.
While average rates of alcohol consumption in the Navy and Air Force have steadily declined since 1980, the year the military's health survey began, they have significantly increased in the Army and Marine Corps and exceed civilian rates, the Pentagon study showed.
That is why we've increased the size of the army and marines corps two years ahead of schedule and have approved another temporary increase in the army.
Before September 11th there was talk of further manpower cuts; many in Congress now want a statutory increase in the army's size.
The army legislation of 1916 was a compromise, with Wilson obtaining only a modest increase in the army and a strengthening of the National Guard, but the Naval Appropriations Act of 1916 provided for more ships than the administration had requested.
It was a period of electoral fraud, union conflicts and the increasing importance of the army in political affairs.
Mr. Danjuma, army chief in the 1970's, defended the increasing use of the army to quell unrest two years after a long military dictatorship ended.
During times of crisis, the volunteer army increased in size, but large militias were raised and certain officer titles were revived for temporary use.
Two generations of beetles in one summer greatly increases the army that attacks trees.
But taking on the Chechen forces in Grozny would involve a sharp increase in the Russian army's death toll.
From then on, professional recruiting replaced conscription, and the increasing use of mercenaries in the army was ruinous for the treasury.
