Tens of thousands of viewers might then troop off to Trafalgar Square to see these works in the flesh, so to speak.

ECONOMIST: London's National Gallery

So India's ministers troop off to Seattle to discuss further trade liberalisation.

ECONOMIST: The real losers

But mostly, you get the front line feel, strongly tinged by deja vu, when you troop off to see some of the congregating former rebel commanders from the 1980s.

BBC: Analysis: Rebels return to the frontier

They regularly troop off wailing to the Constitutional Court, but so far to no effect.

ECONOMIST: A not-so-model system

No standing in the corridors for hours, no being shunted off for a troop train to pass, and above all, no black-out curtains.

NPR: Part One

First off, there's a sort of "lumpiness" to troop deployment, which could increase the cost per soldier.

FORBES: Spending

He ordered troop deployments in the Sinai and closed the Red Sea to Israeli shipping, hoping that this would get his allies off his back.

ECONOMIST: Israel and the Palestinians