From this country the Carthaginians drew large supplies of troops and money that might serve to reinforce Hannibal; hence it was in the interest of the Romans to challenge their enemy within Spain.
In their colonial days in India, the British wanted Nepal as a buffer zone in the Himalayas & also wanted a supply of Gurkha troops for the British Army.
Almost overnight, the Mihail Kogalniceanu Airport just north of here became a major route for refueling and supply of United States troops in Iraq and neighboring countries.
And who would expect Mr. Medvedev, after weaning the government of Kyrgyzstan from American influence, and seemingly succeeding in getting its government to close a U.S. air base there central to the supply of U.S. troops in Afghanistan, to reverse field?
There is evidence that he has links to the group, and that he may have been working with it to develop poisons for use in terrorist attacks, possibly including a recent plot to poison the food supply of British troops.
It is talking of cutting military ties and even denying the Americans use of the Incirlik airbase that is vital for the supply of their troops in Iraq (see article).As such threats demonstrate, Turkey is not just an angry ally.
Phleps subsequently became the deputy quartermaster of the 10th Army, responsible for organising the supply of the troops fighting the Italians in the mountains.
In 1857, for example, they lost an enormous amount of money as a result of violent Mormon opposition to their shipment of supplies to troops in Utah (the Mormon militia attacked and burned three of Russell, Majors and Waddell's wagon trains) and bitter cold winter weather.
