Sentence examples for small number of troops from inspiring English sources

Botswana has also sent a small number of troops.

A small number of troops are there to help with "intelligence sharing," Pentagon spokesman Capt.

(Senator Barack Obama, a rival of Mrs. Clinton, has said that if elected president, he might keep a small number of troops in Iraq).

By putting a small number of troops into Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland we are simply asserting our legal right to protect those countries in a defensive way".

Operational military planning was concentrated at Central Command in Tampa which was heads-down trying to devise an invasion with a very small number of troops.

The move came a day after the president, Chandrika Kumaratunga, suspended the country's Parliament, took control of the powerful Defense, Interior and Media ministries and deployed a small number of troops at key government buildings.

They're even talking about moving small numbers of troops very quickly – a "starship troopers" approach.

Other than the Americans, that will leave only the British and possibly two or three other countries with very small numbers of troops.

Despite Obama's firm position, some U.S. military commanders have pressed for more leeway to send small numbers of troops into combat with Iraqi forces.

Iran has pumped up Shia militias that viscerally shun America, and lent small numbers of troops and advisers for operations in the east, close to its border.

And the way in which…–He figured out that randomizing was the right thing to do to try and protect these convoys as well as he could with small numbers of troops.