Sentence examples for regular troops from inspiring English sources

Increasing numbers of them are replacing regular troops amid cutbacks.

In addition, partisans were seen as more likely to commit depredations than were regular troops.

Some Vietcong units attacked prematurely, without the backing of regular troops as planned.

Despite the billowing insurgency, Mr Rumsfeld has sneered at demands to recruit more regular troops.

By then the regular troops were weary, though still stalwart, still brave.

In wartime the corvée was sometimes used to augment regular troops in auxiliary capacities.

Therefore, he proposed to supplement the regular troops with trained reserves and militia.

It recently bought 100,000 Kalashnikov rifles (more than its total number of regular troops).

Then, on October 20 , 1947 armed tribesmen and regular troops from Pakistan invaded Kashmir.

No one wants regular troops "standing around in front of buildings," he said.

Privately, the commanders admitted to Ukrainian troops that they were Russian regular troops.