Word: troop
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...deployment of about 15,000 others. In the course of a three-year war, such a move means precious little, and could far more easily have been motivated by a desire, for instance, to prod Saigon to greater self-reliance. As Johnson and Nixon would later prove, troop withdrawals were in no way inconsistent with war escalation...
...state to decide" how to organize its military "in accordance with its own laws." As it turns out, the other eight will operate under a Commonwealth "single command," dominated de facto by Russia. But whether they will be willing or able to pay the staggering costs of modern, multimillion-troop armed forces is a question they have not yet faced...
...that Bush meant that the new states must promise to control nuclear weapons tightly, adhere to the arms-control and troop-limitation treaties signed by the Soviet Union and advance human rights and market economies. Governments around the world quickly began announcing their recognition of the 12 new states, even as they wondered what kind of future their Commonwealth, established on only the barest sketch of a treaty signed last month in Alma- Ata, capital of Kazakhstan, will be able to build for itself. The Commonwealth members, with Russia and Ukraine in the lead, are already wrangling over...
...lost the Lexington plus a destroyer and a tanker; the Japanese had lost the carrier Shoho, plus a tanker and a destroyer, more aircraft (77 vs. 66) and more men (1,074 vs. 543). But in strategic terms, the key fact was that the Japanese troop transports bound for Port Moresby had to turn back...
...strongpoint at the arid village of El Alamein, 70 miles to the west. A worried Churchill sent Montgomery, an eccentric, bullheaded disciplinarian, to head the Eighth Army. In spite of frantic pleas from London, Monty -- as the Ulsterman asked his soldiers to refer to him -- took his time, rebuilding troop morale and stocking up on ammunition. Churchill wanted him to counterattack by September 1942. Montgomery chose to wait until Oct. 23. By that time the Eighth Army outnumbered Axis forces 195,000 men to 104,000 and had more than 1,000 tanks to Rommel...