Sentence examples for total of troops from inspiring English sources

The 5,000 seems to be a total of troops and contractors: "If approved by top military officers and the president, an initial withdrawal of 5,000 would represent a modest reduction from the current 100,000 US troops in Afghanistan, allowing the military to preserve combat power through this summer's fighting season.

In April, Pietraru met with the Provisional Government's Alexander Guchkov, and an agreement was reached regarding the maximum total of troops to be enlisted in the Romanian Corps.

At the time, the prime minister's aides presented the drawdown — from a total of 5,200 troops in October, and 43,000 troops at the time of the invasion in 2003 — as a means of distancing himself from his predecessor, Tony Blair, and from a deeply unpopular war.

And the reason that we're in a position to draw down 10,000 troops this year and a total of 33,000 troops by the end of next summer is precisely because of the extraordinary work of our men and women in uniform.

Later, however, her aides said Mrs. Clinton was not seeking a total withdrawal of troops from Iraq, or a quick pullout that could put troops at risk.

This would exceed the total number of troops agreed in the transitional security arrangements governing the presence of government and opposition forces in the capital.

- Israel is calling up another 18,000 reserves to bring the total number of troops on the Gaza border to almost 60,000.

10.34pm BST Israel is calling up another 18,000 reserves to bring the total number of troops on the Gaza border to almost 60,000.

As outlined by Mr. Guéhenno, formerly chairman of the Institute of Advanced Studies on National Defense in France, the new Congo peacekeeping plan would reduce the total number of troops and military observers to about 3,000, from the 5,537 authorized last year by the Security Council.

That is the total number of troops used for the army's incursion into Ramallah and other parts of the West Bank earlier this month, at the time the largest military action since the 1982 war in Lebanon.

Gen. David G. Perkins, chief spokesman for the American forces in Iraq, told reporters on Sunday that over the next six months, the total number of troops in Iraq, currently 140,000, would be reduced by 12,000.