Sentence examples for overall troop from inspiring English sources

Mr. Rumsfeld prefers a more flexible approach that should allow for reductions in overall troop strength.

But because fewer Guard forces will leave this year than had been anticipated, the Guard still expects to maintain its overall troop level at 350,000.

The British memo discusses a possible reduction in overall troop strength, including the United States and its allies, from 176,000 to 66,000 in 2006.

The overall troop strength in Kosovo is well below levels pledged by countries last summer at the end of the conflict.

He has announced plans for a 10% reduction in overall troop numbers by 2016 and some pay increases to attract and retain able recruits.

The report, based on a review conducted every two years, said the North's overall troop strength remained the same, at an estimated 1.1 million.

At the time, African-Americans were limited to 10percentt of the overall troops, said the Army Center of Military History.

Just before his retirement last spring, the top officer of United States Central Command, Gen. James N. Mattis, told the Senate that he recommended keeping 13,600 American troops in Afghanistan beyond 2014, resulting in an overall allied troop level of more than 20,000.

Amid overall global troop cuts, the US military presence in South Korea and Japan will be maintained.

Units recently withdrawn from Basra were redeployed to bases outside the city, leaving the overall British troop numbers unchanged.

Commanders like the new Cent Com chief, General David Petraeus, would like an extra US brigade sent now to southern Afghanistan, bringing the overall US troop presence from the current 33,000 to around 40,000.