As recently as 1902 America threatened to send troops to settle the Alaskan boundary dispute.
Reporters asked Erdogan whether he would make good on his threat to send troops into northern Iraq.
West African leaders have agreed to send troops to Mali and Guinea-Bissau following coups in both countries.
Other countries have failed to deliver on promises to send troops to the AU force (Amisom) to Somalia.
There had been concerns for their fate following France's decision to send troops into Mali earlier this month.
They are asked to send troops for joint training, spend a certain amount on defence and so on.
French officials earlier expressed reluctance to send troops to Mali, amid a broader vow to scale back their military involvement in Africa.
But during a visit to Berlin, Ecowas chairman and Ivory Coast President Alassane Ouattara urged German Chancellor Angela Merkel to send troops.
Alexander Lebed, the former Russian general who negotiated the end of the Chechen war, urged the authorities to send troops to quell the unrest.
"While all of this chaos is going on in Bamako, nothing is being done to send troops back to retake the north, " said Flood.
Mr. Hollande also improved his standing in Germany with his quick decision to send troops to Mali to fight an Islamist insurgency, analysts say.
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Niger, Burkina Faso, Togo, Senegal and Benin are also among the countries that have pledged to send troops, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius told reporters Monday.
Last week he got Yoweri Museveni of Uganda and Laurent Kabila of Congo to sign a peace accord and offered to send troops to monitor it.
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His government has explicitly linked the two issues, saying that he wants to see more progress on North Korea talks before agreeing to send troops to Iraq.
However, that position has put him at odds with much of his country, where a majority of Japanese people polled opposed his decision to send troops to Iraq.
After the war, the Turkish government promised to send troops to protect the Turkomen, and Turkomen parties have been announcing that the time for such intervention has come.
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Still, his hypercautious reluctance to send troops into danger led him at that time to take a position no different from isolationists in practice, though different in principle.
International observers worry that the rebels are being deliberately intransigent, in the hope that the dire humanitarian crisis will force the world powers to send troops to the region.
If the United States elects to send troops to the Golan, the U.S. must define its own mission, and not let Syria or Israel dictate the terms of the deployment.
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That meant a normal willingness to defend its own interests, for example in the European Union, and also a readiness to send troops on such foreign missions as the war in Kosovo.
The Economic Community of West African States plans to hold an emergency meeting in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, to prepare to send troops to Mali to help government forces, a spokesman for the organization said.
Nigeria, Malawi and Ghana have shown no sign of honouring their pledges to send troops, nor is it clear that any other AU country has the logistical back-up the Ugandans and Burundians are asking for.
And that may actually then ultimately save us money in the long term because we don't end up having to send troops in and do some things ourselves, because we've got allies to work with us.
This would get around the unwillingness of rich countries to send their troops to die in Congo.
U.S. President George W. Bush has called on NATO members to send more troops to Afghanistan.
Defense Secretary Gates has been taking turns with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice appealing to NATO to send more troops to Afghanistan.
President Obama has said he wants to send more troops to Afghanistan as part of what analysts believe could be an "Iraqi-style" military surge.
They worry that, having won the war, Donald Rumsfeld, the defence secretary, is now going to lose the peace by stubbornly refusing to send enough troops to do what is needed in Iraq.
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