The Pentagon's order affects a wide range of troops, including infantry, helicopter crews, military police and logistics specialists, in both Iraq and Kuwait.
Faced with a populist Shiite cleric who has bunkered a heavily-armed militia force in the sect's holiest shrine, American commanders in this city of 500,000 resorted reluctantly on Thursday to a scaled-down objective, throwing a wide cordon of troops and armor around the city's heart and announcing that they planned to "further isolate" the militiamen.
American forces in Iraq threw a wide cordon of troops and armor around Najaf's heart in the eighth day of clashes, but the plumes of smoke and movement of tanks seemed to represent a newly scaled-down objective -- isolating, rather than vanquishing, the militia loyal to a rebel Shiite cleric.
French troops would simply run away and a gap would be left wide open for German troops, wearing gas masks, to advance and gain huge amounts of ground.
Col. Noël Rakotonandrasana, a leader of the restive troops, claimed wide support within the army and told reporters on Monday that "75percentt of soldiers are with us," Reuters reported.
A recommendation was made that night that glider landings should be considered only when an emergency existed, and that otherwise gliders should take off during the night and land during daylight to avoid the wide dispersal of airborne troops and a decrease in efficiency.
The biggest campus-wide "Support Our Troops" rally was at least as well attended as any antiwar protest.
Waterloo, his harrowing final loss, looks no different from any of the production's dozen or so martial moments: wide shots of DeMille-scale troop formations, close-ups of uniformed torsos with bloody perforations.
When deploying, make your troop's formation wide so when the Spartans attack, your troops wrap around the Spartans so your troops could attack from behind,sides, and the front.
O.K., so one of the teenage models nearly lost his trousers as he trooped down the wide runway.
Last week after intense questioning at a Senate hearing, Mr. Rumsfeld told reporters that the United States "would be happy to have troops from a wide variety of countries, including France".
