In fact, the seminal moment in the book involves (coincidentally enough) another confrontation with McChrystal and the top military brass during the run-up to the president's fateful decision to approve a troop surge in Afghanistan.
The Clinton Administration does, though, and Washington seems to be creeping up to the ground-troop question only inch by reluctant inch.
From the CBS visitor centre in Bermudian Landing, local village guides lead short nature walks that provide an up-close introduction to a resident troop of black howlers.
Later, when my parents had come home and neighbors began to troop in to say ndo sorry and to snap their fingers and heave their shoulders up and down, I sat alone in my room upstairs and realized what the queasiness in my gut was: Nnamabia had done it, I knew.
No wonder the Pentagon has drawn up plans to increase significantly America's troop strength in Iraq.
If the military had a troop shortage could shore up its numbers by allowing openly gay service members to serve, it would have done that a long time ago, too.
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On Monday, CNN learned that U.S. commanders in Iraq have asked the Pentagon to extend tours of duty for about 15, 000 troops in the war zone by up to four months as part of the U.S. troop "surge" in Iraq that began in January.
TUZLA, Bosnia Herzegovina (CNN) -- While the administration and Congress gear up for what promises to be a fierce debate on U.S. troop deployment in Bosnia, the city where the troops will begin their work is preparing for their arrival.
And that is, back in December of 2009, as part of the policy and approach and strategy that he laid out for Afghanistan, he said that we would, after ramping up our troop presence in Afghanistan, adding another 30, 000 troops, in addition to the troops he had added before, that we would begin a transition and we would begin to draw down our troops.
Brown said the troop increase was contingent upon other countries also providing more boots on the ground, the Afghans stepping up their commitment to their own security, and the British troops being properly equipped.
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