Sentence examples for maintaining troop from inspiring English sources

There is tepid support for maintaining troop strength there, much less increasing it, as his top commander in Afghanistan prepares to submit a request for additional forces.

The Bush administration let the popular and respected military commander make the case for maintaining troop levels, forcing opponents to tiptoe around the general's rows of medals and gleaming four stars.

Funderburg reports that during the Second World War, it was deemed so important to maintaining troop morale that equipment was shipped overseas, and half-pints were delivered "right to the fox holes".

"The cost of maintaining troops outside your own territory must be telling on Zimbabwe," he said.

On Sunday, Iraq's interim leaders said that they could not negotiate a formal "status of forces" agreement with the American military on maintaining troops in Iraq, and that the task must await the next sovereign Iraqi government.

A1 Iraq Delays Negotiations Iraq's interim leaders said they could not negotiate an agreement with the American military on maintaining troops in Iraq and that the task must await the next government once sovereignty is restored.

Certainly that was Clinton's military strategy in the former Yugoslavia, and it seems to have achieved its desire effect with far less cost in money and blood than the infusion of a massive army of ground troops which would have cost countless American lives and up to a million dollars per soldier per year (the approximate current cost of maintaining troops in Afghanistan).

Mitt Romney, Senator John McCain and Rudolph W. Giuliani have all said they would maintain troop levels in Iraq.

Republican senator John McCain has pledged to maintain troop levels until the country is secure.

The largest of these, the Central Security Forces (CSF), reports to the Ministry of the Interior and maintains troop strength nearly as high as the army.

Mr. Bush also held out little hope for a quick withdrawal of American soldiers, and said he would maintain troop levels of 138,000 "as long as necessary".