Sentence examples for on security conditions from inspiring English sources
President Obama has promised to begin withdrawing American troops next July, although the administration says the pace will depend on security conditions.
It had long opposed any notion of a fixed timetable for withdrawal, saying any troop pull-out had to be based on security conditions on the ground.
Both Mr. Gates and Mr. Rasmussen said that any troop withdrawal from Afghanistan would be based on security conditions on the ground.
Senior American commanders in Iraq declined to predict what troop levels might be at the end of the year, stating that their recommendations to the president would be based on security conditions on the ground.
Mr. Gates has said in public that he opposed firm timelines, and during the administration's Afghanistan strategy review he insisted that any decisions about troop withdrawals be based on security conditions inside the country.
Army officials are planning worst-case scenarios of keeping about 100,000 troops in Iraq through 2006, but those plans depend on security conditions and how capable Iraqi security forces prove to be.
"This all depends on the security conditions and the readiness, arming and supplying of the armed forces".
"The Intercontinental attack introduces doubt, and if the transition is supposed to be based on the security conditions, then the conditions haven't been met".
A scathing report on the security conditions that left a diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, vulnerable to attack has led to the ouster of four State Department officials.
Appearing on "Fox News Sunday," General Petraeus said that the Obama administration was not planning a "rush to the exits" in Afghanistan, and that depending on the security conditions there could be tens of thousands of American troops in Afghanistan for several years.
The Embassy felt that photos of us all geared up, as we believed we needed to be based on local security conditions, would not play well with their PR campaign that all was well.
