After some enthusiastic applause and music, everyone, government officials and engineers and members of the public, trooped back downstairs to the exhibition halls, followed by TV cameras and reporters.
When the existence of Unit 61398 became public its troops paused for a while, then continued as before.Confronting the PLA's hackers comes at a cost.
That should be our goal, so that the British public, our troops and the Afghan Government frankly, know there's an end to this".
He said that the notification began Wednesday and that the list of units would not be made public until troops received official word.
Now, after years when they were barely seen in public, the troops are spoken of with a new warmth and have even become fixtures on television programs lauding the heroes of the rescue efforts.
The public-employee troops are concentrated, in absolute numbers and by percentage, in 18 states.
Mr. Karzai raised no public objections to troop cuts, saying he had obtained two important concessions from the United States: the transfer of prisons housing terrorism suspects to Afghan control, and the pullout of American troops from Afghan villages this spring.
It doesn't sound to me like Romney was calling for a public timetable for troop withdrawal.
"[R]ecent administrations have understood that the public relies on troop levels as an imperfect marker of American strategy, commitment, and even success," the authors wrote.
Then there's the America homefront, where Petraeus' strategy is to "set back the clock" of public pressure for troop withdrawals.
