The idea is to re-jigger the numbers to get that level of troops up to about 160, 000.
The details of Gen McChrystal's report are not known, but analysts say he had been expected to submit a range of options from 10, 000 additional troops up to 40, 000.
America is rushing to train Iraqis in ordinary policing tasks in order to free American troops up for more specialised duties, such as guarding the UN and hunting Saddam and his henchmen.
They respond to a leader who makes clear what he wants and will use the power of the presidency to lead his troops up the hill to take on those who oppose him.
In the south west of Rwanda the French troops set up a secure zone, code-named Turquoise.
Senegalese troops and up to 2, 000 from Chad are on the way, she said.
In the last Gulf war, Saddam Hussein's retreating troops blew up some 700 Kuwaiti oil wells.
In 1987, 402 people died at the Hajj when troops broke up a Shiite protest.
Nearby, troops loaded up the heavy guns for another assault on Taliban positions.
Jeffrey Schloesser, said Tuesday that attacks on his troops were up 40 percent in the first five months of 2008.
There's troops cleaning up the trees that were all down, but it's going to take a long time for it to rebuild.
As negotiators met again on Sunday to continue their talks, Israeli troops rounded up several Palestinians suspected of tossing two Molotov cocktails at a Jewish settlement in Hebron.
And nor is a kind of wistful isolationism where U.S. troops pack up their gear and come home, where bygones will be bygones and where al Qaeda won't follow.
The operation happened in Bitunya, southwest of Ramallah, where Israeli troops blew up the house of Ahmud Imad, a local leader of the Palestinian Islamic fundamentalist organization Hamas, the source and witness said.
The different Iraqi parties do not need to assume moral and political responsibility for their country's future, because they know there are 140, 000 American troops holding up the floor of security in the country.
National Guard troops showed up at Logan early this morning, and security lines that were running two hours yesterday are much shorter now, since people are moving more smoothly through the new extra security checks.
The war that left about 60, 000 American troops and up to 5m Vietnamese dead still haunts a generation of politicians, from John McCain, who famously fought, to Bill Clinton and George Bush, who famously didn't.
Between 700 and 800 African troops from Benin, Nigeria, Togo and Burkina Faso have arrived, U.S. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said Friday, and a number of Senegalese troops and up to 2, 000 from Chad are on the way.
The 17, 000 British military personnel deployed for the Games, including the extra 3, 500 troops called up at short notice, are to help out with the security checks and stewarding at venues, as well as specialist tasks such as bomb disposal and sniffer dog searches.
The strategists in Beijing have propped up the regime both because they fear instability on their border and even more because they worry about a unified Korea, perhaps with American troops hard up against the Chinese frontier for the first time in over 60 years.
The United Kingdom is prepared to deploy up to 40 troops to a European Union military training mission in Mali, and up to 200 troops as trainers in English-speaking West African countries, British Defence Minister Philip Hammond told lawmakers in the House of Commons.
Ugandan troops will head a new regional force, made up of troops from South Sudan, the Central African Republic and Democratic Republic of Congo, to hunt the rebel fighters, who are holed up in the jungles of the Central African Republic, said Col.
Some 68, 000 US troops currently make up the majority of the 100, 000-strong coalition force.
The troops recently picked up the son-in-law of Mullah Omar, the former Taliban leader.
He could decide, of course, to split the difference: add some troops while pumping up special operations forces.
He has deployed about 30, 000 troops to back up and, in some cases, do the job of local police.
Government troops have stepped up operations at Syria's borders in an effort to stop arms reaching the rebels, reports say.
The annual exercise involves six ships, more than 20 helicopters and 3, 000 troops which make up the Response Force Task Group (RFTG).
We've had troops in Iraq for almost as long as we had troops in Europe up until the point of V-E Day.
Gol says he hopes that the troops will speed up their efforts.
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