Sentence examples for position of troops from inspiring English sources

Another problem for Stone defending himself was an order from McClellan forbidding him to give testimony "regarding his [McClellan's] plans, his orders for the movement of troops, or his orders concerning the position of troops".

The president has had to fend off criticism from American conservatives that he appeared to soften the American stance on the positioning of troops on the Japanese island of Okinawa, and for bowing to Japan's emperor.

Only the misplacement of Russian forces by Kutuzov over both Bagration's and Barclay's protest prevented the ruin of the French army that day, both the Prussian Staff Officer Karl von Clausewitz, the historian and future author of On War, and Alexander I of Russia noting that the poor positioning of troops in particular had hobbled the defense.

A day later, Hromadske's reporters were accused of exposing the position of the troops.

Van Susteren asked Rumsfeld why it was so hard to get Karzai to sign a status-of-forces agreement — a memorandum that would clarify the legal position of American troops in Afghanistan.

By nightfall, the operation was proceeding smoothly, with the most serious incident being a brush fire that had detonated three land mines near a newly established position of Indian troops.

Gord Young claims the 1944 message, which was reportedly sent by a 27-year-old paratrooper Sergeant W. Stott, details the position of German troops based in Normandy via a simple World War I code, the Telegraph reports.

"And I think we need to continue to look toward how do we have success in a way that we can begin to change the positioning of our troops, beginning to bring them home, turning over more of the policing and the military and the government to the Iraqis.

Reuters called the expanded positioning of NATO troops and military equipment in that region the "biggest military build-up on Russia's borders since the Cold War".

The observers were easily able to plot the positions of experienced troops, who lit flares and waved anything to attract attention.

Two flights of each observation squadron concentrated on counter-battery observation and one became a "bombardment flight", working with particular artillery ' bombardment groups" for wire-cutting and trench-destruction; these flights became "contact-patrol flights" intended to observe the positions of British troops once the assault began.