Secretary Gates says President Obama has pledged to give all the time necessary to allow the commanders to make their case, before he decides.

VOA: standard.2009.10.06

While the top-level process is continuing, Washington is consumed with a debate about whether the president should send more troops as the commanders want or take the air power and high technology route.

VOA: standard.2009.10.06

Soon after the war began in eighteen sixty-one, military commanders started to send battlefield reports by telegraph.

VOA: special.2009.02.22

Yet he had problems all his life following the orders of those who were his commanders.

VOA: special.2009.05.24

Lincoln thought of the two men who were now his top military commanders: McClellan and Grant.

VOA: special.2009.09.03

The two commanders met under a white flag of truce.

VOA: special.2009.11.19

But most of the Confederate commanders opposed this.

VOA: special.2010.01.14

U.S.military commanders say that despite the desperate conditions in parts of the capital, food distributions overall have been orderly.

VOA: standard.2010.01.26

"Certainly,to tie the hands of our commanders and say we are not going to conduct air strikes would be imprudent,"

VOA: standard.2009.05.10

NATO commanders plan to reduce his influence as the chairman of the provincial council by making the local government more effective.

VOA: standard.2010.05.28

With U.S.casualties in Afghanistan on the increase, the president is considering requests from his military commanders for more troops.

VOA: standard.2009.11.16

Secretary Gates notes that the current and former Afghanistan commanders have both limited offensive air strikes in order to reduce civilian casualties.

VOA: standard.2009.10.06

NATO commanders insisted the air strike was aimed at insurgents and launched after forces determined there were no civilians in the area.

VOA: standard.2009.09.04

She says President Barack Obama is consulting with military commanders and other advisors to work out the best way forward in Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2009.10.12

Army commanders say it is only a matter of time before the Taliban-style group would be completely destroyed.

VOA: standard.2009.07.30

German commanders ordered the strike on two fuel tankers believed to have been hijacked by the Taliban.

VOA: standard.2009.09.08

United Nations,Israeli, and Lebanese commanders met in South Lebanon in a bid to ease tensions, following the deadliest border clash in four years on Tuesday.

VOA: standard.2010.08.05

It says 16 militants were killed in the clashes, including two key Taliban commanders, while more than 150 suspected fighters surrendered to local military authorities.

VOA: standard.2009.09.14

Earlier,White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs said U.S.commanders in Iraq are confident that Iraqi security forces will be able to take control of the nation's cities.

VOA: standard.2009.06.30

The attack,on Revolutionary Guard commanders and Sunni and Shi'ite tribal leaders gathering for a reconciliation meeting, was among the most brazen in the Islamic Republic in years.

VOA: standard.2009.10.19

The general said he has already started working more closely with Afghan forces, by integrating some of their commanders into his headquarters, along with other coalition partners.

VOA: standard.2009.12.03

But lawmakers as well as American military commanders are concerned by violence in Iraq, particularly about the possibility that tensions between Arabs and Kurds could expand into widespread violence.

VOA: standard.2009.09.10

Analysts say that recent arrests and killings of top militant commanders, including Baituallah Mehsud, appear to have broken the back of militants and led to infighting among various Taliban groups.

VOA: standard.2009.09.14

Military commanders said Monday the rebels' days are numbered.

VOA: standard.2009.04.06

The current U.S.and NATO commander, General David McKiernan, had said he would need But Secretary Gates deferred a decision until the new commanders can assess the impact of the current deployment.

VOA: standard.2009.06.08

Last week the extremist leader's top spokesman, Muslim Khan was captured with four other militant commanders and military officials say information obtained from the detainees has helped the subsequent raids in Swat.

VOA: standard.2009.09.14

He also said further efforts to reduce civilian casualties will be part of a military strategy review the secretary has ordered his new commanders to produce within 60 days of arriving in Afghanistan.

VOA: standard.2009.06.08

However,despite their successes, the Pakistani security forces had failed to kill or capture top Taliban leaders in the region until the announcement of spokesman Muslim Khan's arrest along with four other commanders on Friday.

VOA: standard.2009.09.11

Pakistani authorities say security forces detained Taliban spokesman Muslim Khan and four other key militant commanders in what they are describing "a successful" military raid just outside the main town of Mingora in the Swat Valley.

VOA: standard.2009.09.11