One unnamed Chirac advisor is quoted in today's Le Parisien newspaper as wondering whether - in future - it might be an idea for the president to carry out his Bastille Day troop inspection in a type of Pope-mobile, or protected car.
The 2, 200-passenger liner also was meant to double as a troop transport ship if war broke out.
No standing in the corridors for hours, no being shunted off for a troop train to pass, and above all, no black-out curtains.
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The software giant led by Chief Executive Steve Ballmer has sent a troop lawyers and advocates to a hearing in Brussels where they will lay out Microsoft's defense.
"We'll have helicopters operating from those ships that, if required, can fulfil the whole range of missions - troop insertion, extraction of casualties, or British civilians that we need to pull out, " said Cdr Matthew Grindon, of 848 Squadron.
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He asked for additional time to get the troop surge going, and now that the interim report came out, he's asking for additional time until September for people to fully evaluate the effectiveness of the troop surge.
Previous troop increases haven't worked, they said, and a timeline encourages insurgents to wait out their enemies.
Strategy board games back in the 1970s and '80s, like "Blitzkrieg" and "War in Europe, " were simulation-type games requiring players to spend a lot of time rolling dice to resolve combat or find out different game stats -- weather conditions, civil unrest, troop rally points.
Republican Senator Lindsey Graham was at a forum last night and said that he thinks the responsible level of troop reduction in Afghanistan, come July, would be in the range of 5, 000 to 10, 000 out of the 100, 000 U.S. troops coming out.
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