Word: deployment
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Presidents, however, have taken significant liberties with their interpretation of when consultation is not "possible"--this contingency has extended to cover most situations in which presidents want to deploy troops quickly without the hassle of meeting with Congressional leaders...
Serious doubts arise from the length of time it took the U.S. to deploy the 525,000-strong forces of Operation Desert Storm. In the event of a Soviet offensive in Europe, Pentagon strategy called for reinforcing NATO with six armored and infantry divisions airlifted or shipped from the U.S. in only 10 days, but it has taken nearly six months to complete the buildup in the gulf. That buildup has stripped American bases in the U.S. and overseas of troops and war machines. More than 70,000 U.S. Army soldiers and 40,000 tanks, artillery pieces and other equipment...
...vowing to deploy the POWs as human shields at "civilian, economic, educational and other targets," Saddam aimed to curtail the allied aerial campaign, the plan backfired as miserably as his earlier threat to put the now released Western hostages to the same use. "America is angry about this," said an irritated President Bush. "If ((Saddam)) thought this brutal treatment of pilots is the way to muster world support, he is dead wrong." Saddam's tactics also aroused disgust in Europe. "He's a man without pity," said British Prime Minister John Major. Both Bush and Major hinted that they might...
...small journalistic army is fully prepared. The deadline makes this a "weird" conflict, remarks chief of correspondents John F. Stacks. "Other wars developed by accretion or else suddenly, like Pearl Harbor. This long period of getting ready is nerve-racking." But at least it allowed Stacks time to deploy his forces...
Soviet troops deploy in Lithuania and mobilize to move on other republics. The Haitian army -- surprisingly -- crushes a coup attempt...