Word: deployments
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...table early, as a way to preserve the alliance (some NATO members didn't want to attack at all) and paint the war as all of Europe, and the U.S., against Yugoslavia. Clark made the best of it, eventually persuading his bosses to at least begin planning to deploy ground units. and after 78 days of increasingly heavy bombing, the strategy worked--though it took the Russians to persuade Milosevic to surrender...
...army's Operation Defensive Shield in spring 2002 left Israeli troops positioned in and around every major Palestinian city in the West Bank. Except for the Bethlehem area, from which they withdrew, the Israelis still hold those positions, allowing commanders to contain the movements of possible terrorists and deploy troops at a moment's notice when intelligence pinpoints...
Nevertheless, only one suicide bomber needs to slip into Israel to wreak carnage on the country's streets. Israeli intelligence officials say Hamas still has the ability to regenerate and deploy new cells faster than Israeli forces can uncover them. That explains, an official says, how two suicide bombers from the same cell in Ramallah managed to hit their targets last week...
Deep inside the Pentagon, where young colonels arrive before dawn to revise once more the short list of available combat units ready to deploy overseas, a nightmare scenario hangs in the air, unmentioned but unmistakable. With 140,000 U.S. troops tied down stabilizing Iraq, 34,000 in Kuwait, 10,000 in Afghanistan and 5,000 in the Balkans, what good options would George W. Bush have if, say sometime next spring, North Korea's Kim Jong Il decided to test the resilience of the relatively small "trip-wire" force of 37,000 American troops in South Korea? Where would...
...shared with a BBC reporter his doubts about the government's case for war, got dragged before parliamentary committees and then took his own life. Campbell had a denial ready for the central question of whether he had influenced the words used in the British claim that Iraq could deploy weapons of mass destruction in 45 minutes: "I had no input, output, influence upon them whatsoever at any stage in the process." But the case is hardly closed. There has been plenty of testimony about meetings, some including the Prime Minister, devoted to the worried search for evidence to harden...