"Despite more than two million troops in uniform - not counting the US military - NATO has struggled,at times desperately, to sustain a deployment of twenty-five thousand to forty-five thousand troops, not just in boots on the ground, but in crucial support assets."

VOA: special.2011.06.11

Morrell acknowledges the troop deployment decision is particularly difficult because of the sharp increase in casualties.

VOA: standard.2009.09.23

Gryzlov says Interior Ministry troops will remain in areas of permanent deployment, including the 46th brigade.

VOA: standard.2009.04.16

Mr.Brown says after eight years of deployment, many in Britain want to know what their forces are still doing there and when will they be coming home.

VOA: standard.2009.11.10

Despite a massive deployment of armed forces and federal police in drug trafficking zones, some 4,000 people have been killed in Juarez during the past two years.

VOA: standard.2009.12.18

That is the most since the lengthy deployment began back in 2001.

VOA: standard.2009.12.25

And it brings the total U.S.deployment, including trainers,up to about 59,000.

VOA: standard.2009.03.26

Shortly afterward, officials made public that the support troops would number up to 13,000, bringing the overall total to 68,000 by the end of the year a doubling of the deployment from when he took office.

VOA: standard.2009.10.13

And as the story acknowledges, that's where we'll be," He explains, as Pentagon officials have in the past, that the deployment of major combat or training units always requires the deployment of additional support troops.

VOA: standard.2009.10.13