Responding to Peng's concern over the troops' conditions, Mao limited the scope of the Third Phase Campaign to pin down the South Korean forces along the 38th parallel while inflicting as much damage as possible.
In a speech today unveiling his own revised security plan, Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki is expected to publicly welcome additional U.S. troops, a condition requested by the Bush administration.
Our correspondent says military commanders have been reluctant to get involved but agreed to deploy the troops on condition they would carry no weapons and would stand behind riot police ringing the main government offices.
The BBC's Jonathan Head, also in Bangkok, says military commanders have been reluctant to get involved in the conflict but agreed to deploy troops on condition they would carry no weapons and would stand behind riot police ringing the main government offices.
"With no troops our condition was much better and we were safe.
Pakistan agreed to discuss a plebiscite, subject to the withdrawal of Indian troops, a condition India rejected.
The assassination of Gen. Raziq in Kandahar shows once again that military analysis of the Afghan war, troop numbers, conditions vs. timetable, is mostly irrelevant.
Landstuhl has admitted 6,777 troops for conditions not related to combat.
Russia does not recognise Transdniestria's independence, but it wants to keep troops there, a condition all other parties reject.
Supports Afghanistan Troop Contribution, with Conditions 15. (C) U/S Burns asked for the President's support to continue our discussions about a battalion-sized contribution of troops to Afghanistan that would include a U.S. train and equip program.
Troop movements, weather conditions, equipment, terminology, and geography — reporters practically got drunk on it all, egged on, presumably, by the networks, some of which sported American-flag graphics during their war coverage.
