The BBC's Christian Fraser in Paris says the UN Security Council had previously been uncomfortable about deploying a force under a UN mandate, but support is growing.

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He was speaking on Friday after UK Armed Forces Minister Adam Ingram told the House of Commons that Britain was deploying a force of 4, 200 personnel and a fleet of warships in the fight against terror.

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They come after the UN began deploying an attack force to the area last week.

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By the sixties the Air Force was deploying unmanned reconnaissance jets over Southeast Asia.

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The Australian police, due to arrive on June 19th, can only advise a special task-force that Indonesia is deploying.

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One of the distinguished retired military officers who co-authored the Center study was General John Foss (USA, Ret.), who served as Commanding General, Training and Doctrine Command (1989-1991) and former Commanding Officer of the 82nd Airborne Division with responsibility for deploying U.S. forces to the Multilateral Force and Observers mission (MFO) in the Sinai Desert.

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Air Force officials declined to tell CNN where the aircraft were deploying to.

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The Air Force learned how to take out any enemy it could find a generation ago when it began deploying munitions that could utilize the very accurate military signal transmitted by Global Positioning Satellites.

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