Sentence examples for increasing troop levels from inspiring English sources

Mr. McCain's early support for increasing troop levels began to look prescient.

We do not mitigate the opposition by increasing troop levels, but rather we increase the opposition and prove to the Pashtuns that the Taliban are correct.

Though a runoff could ease some questions about the legitimacy of the Afghan government, the Obama administration now faces the prospect of further delay in making a decision on increasing troop levels in Afghanistan, administration officials said Thursday.

The Jalrez Valley is a test case, the first area in Afghanistan where President Obama's strategy of increasing troop levels has been applied, and it is a promising early indicator.

Yet he was also an early advocate of increasing troop levels at a time when Mr. Bush was resistant, and was withering, from 2004 on, about Donald H. Rumsfeld, then defense secretary, and what Mr. McCain called Mr. Rumsfeld's "whack a mole" strategy of moving American troops from one violence-plagued part of Iraq to another.

Increasing troop levels isn't an option.

Part of the review will address increased troop levels.

The U.S. has just increased troop levels tenfold in Wardak.

He wants to increase troop levels by a mere 21,500.

The number of Americans who want to increase troop levels has tripled.

(Indeed, "bridge to nowhere" might be a good name for our increased troop levels in Afghanistan).