They braced their troops and populations for the worst, and the more gullible believed them (I talked to Londoners planning their evacuation route from the capital).
As the U.S. prepares for war, biotech firms are rushing to develop a powerful new generation of drugs and vaccines to protect troops and population centers from dirty bombs, exotic killer microbes and other biological and chemical weapons.
They serve in the U.S. armed forces in disproportionately high numbers, with the highest troop-to-population ratios of any racial or ethnic group.
Annan's plan calls for the withdrawal of heavy weapons and troops from population centres, for humanitarian assistance to be allowed in unimpeded, for the release of prisoners, freedom of movement and access for journalists to go in and out.
Still, commanders must exercise military power overseas with due regard for the safety of American troops and civilian populations.
But because the United States is taking steps to inoculate its troops and civilian populations or has effective antibiotics against some germs, he said, terrorists may pursue other agents.
The military will not only protect the health and safety of American troops and local populations, but also leave behind a greener country.
Annan told the 15-nation council behind closed doors that Syria has agreed to the idea of such a deadline, which would include the end of troop movements toward population centers, the withdrawal of heavy weapons and a start to the withdrawal of troops, U.N. diplomats told Reuters on condition of anonymity.
It is conceivable that this Sd1 clone spread worldwide as an aftermath of World War I (1914 1918), a period of unusually high intercontinental transfer of people, troops and displaced populations, and conditions very favorable for outbreaks: high population density and poor hygiene conditions.
But with Britain's far smaller population and troop deployments, the latest deaths — from a force of 9,000 that makes Britain's the second-largest troop presence in Afghanistan after the United States' — have been as much of a shock here as the heavy American troop losses in Iraq at the height of that conflict were in the United States.
Another term related to propaganda is psychological warfare (sometimes abbreviated to psychwar), which is the prewar or wartime use of propaganda directed primarily at confusing or demoralizing enemy populations or troops, putting them off guard in the face of coming attacks, or inducing them to surrender.
