In 1987, III Corps also conducted the largest deployment of forces to Germany since the Second World War, Exercise Reforger '87.
Under the largest deployment of military and paramilitary forces in any tribal region since Pakistan's inception, about 5,000 paramilitary and regular army soldiers have been battling an estimated 400 to 500 local and foreign militants for 11 days in South Waziristan, not far from the border with Afghanistan.
The force, Britain's largest deployment since the Falklands war in 1982, could switch from its training to take part in operations.
A mix of Foreign Legionnaires, special forces and regular soldiers, it is France's largest deployment in Africa in two decades, and it is testing the longstanding French commitment to the continent.
The Met said 600 officers from eight forces have searched nine sq miles of open land and 3.4 miles of canals and rivers in the largest deployment of search assets for an ongoing investigation since the terrorist attacks of 2005.
The largest deployment, more than 1,000, serves in South Sudan.
What the public is unlikely to support is a large deployment of U.S. forces like those in Iraq and Afghanistan in the past two decades.
According to the Free Tibet Campaign, when Buddhist monks at the Ganzi monastery denied entry to the police, a large deployment of paramilitary forces was sent to the temple on Thursday, and two monks were arrested for possessing photographs of the Dalai Lama.
US Secretary of State John Kerry has said the US is "deeply concerned" about the "large deployment" of Russian forces along the eastern border of Ukraine and in Crimea.
"And then, several minutes later, we saw a very large deployment of security forces – the police and fire engines, with lots of trucks deployed around our road.
