Many European armies are long on undeployable conscripts and short on crack troops.

ECONOMIST: European defence

Crack troops had surrounded Bhutto's Islamabad residence after Leghari ordered her dismissed.

CNN: The Sacking of Benazir

' It is presumably why the Administration accepted Boutros-Ghali's claim of authority to decide when and where NATO air strikes could take place in Bosnia and why the U.S. dispatched crack troops to Somalia without raising serious questions about whether it is prudent, justifiable or in the U.S. interest.

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