You don't send troops to war without the body armor that they need.
Rather than dispatch troops to a war-zone, and have little but casualties to show for it afterwards, the Clinton administration decided instead to try to make peace in Bosnia and then to send in troops to enforce it.
Russia has violated the terms of the peace deal brokered by France's Nicolas Sarkozy, which demands that all sides withdraw troops to pre-war lines and refuses to allow international monitors into South Ossetia or Abkhazia.
After America, Britain is by some distance the second largest contributor in both troops and treasure to the war against the Taliban in Afghanistan.
As the battles rage on, researchers are still trying to gauge the damage the war has done to troops.
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Nine months after the war, Russian troops have not fully withdrawn to their pre-war positions, as agreed under an internationally-negotiated truce.
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.
His government has strong U.S. backing, has contributed troops to the American-led war in Iraq and applied for membership in NATO.
Their most high profile candidate, Colonel Tim Collins, became known for a stirring eve-of-battle speech to troops in the Iraq War in 2003.
For example, it's difficult to rally your troops for war in the planting season, because they will most likely not leave the fields.
Balancing the competing military and political needs is a tricky equation for Pentagon planners, and it brings into focus a key question: How many troops are needed to fight each war?
But Mr Blair is conscious that in defence matters, Britain, France and Germany may have little choice but to work together more closely, given America's recent reluctance to commit any more ground troops to Europe's potential war zones.
Commentators have suggested Mr Galloway attracted many Asian voters because of his opposition to the war in Iraq and his call for troops to withdraw from Afghanistan immediately.
The death brought the number of U.S. troops killed in the Iraq war to 2, 152.
Britain has been Washington's greatest ally in the Iraq war, contributing troops to the initial invasion.
Thirty-eight U.S. troops have died this month, bringing the number of U.S. troops killed in the Iraq war to 398.
America was largely able to avoid this in the Gulf war, when its troops fought from mid-January to the end of February.
President GEORGE W. BUSH: Here in Washington, members of both parties recognize that our most solemn responsibility is to support our troops in the war on terror.
Oona King was beaten by former colleague George Galloway, thrown out of the Labour party over his opposition to the Iraq war and his attitude to the role of British troops.
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But German Defence Secretary Franz Josef Jung has defied calls to resign over the incident - the deadliest involving German troops since World War II - and a defence ministry spokesman insisted the decision to attack was "militarily necessary and correct".
In May 2009, Sri Lankan troops mounted a massive campaign to end the war against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam, a separatist group better known as the Tamil Tigers.
Experts are already pointing to the build-up to the first Gulf War in 1991 when President Bush senior - while insisting such a resolution was not necessary - did indeed seek and obtain congressional support for the war to oust Iraqi troops from Kuwait.
Although nothing like so important as the request that Turkey turned down, opening a supply line to American troops and allowing humanitarian aid through Turkey is a significant boost to the American war effort.
In September, Gates said that the Pentagon would be unable to commit new troops before spring or summer, partly because of its larger commitment to the Iraq war.
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It was a request more appropriate to the cold war, when Australia supported the United States with troops in Korea and Vietnam, than to an era when the Americans expect allies to pull their own weight in their own regions.
Britain, which had the largest contingent after the U.S. - it provided more than 45, 000 troops in the early days of the war - they're down to just over 5, 000, fifty-five hundred troops now.
Yesterday, a Democrat who once supported the war, called for US troops to be withdrawn.
William took over when war broke out and troops had to be managed in real time at a tactical level.
In 1944, in World War II, Bulgaria announced that it had withdrawn from the war and that German troops were to be disarmed.
The ARENA government has been a faithful ally in the war in Iraq and committed troops to Iraq longer than any other South American country.
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