However, he stressed that a contingent of soldiers would remain to «protect our investment», and said the whole situation was dependent on conditions on the ground. (politics.co.uk)
Anthony Watts publishes a post on his blog, Watts Up With That, entitled, «Houston, we have a dumbass problem,» following a February 24 Oval Office meeting, and subsequent Washington Post article, where two of President Obama's top climate advisers presented «sharply - contrasting images of California's snowpack on Jan. 13, 2013 and a year later, as a way to underscore how global warming is changing conditions on the ground in the United States.» (desmogblog.com)
During the Iraq war, the Vatican maintained detailed intelligence of conditions on the ground — gleaned not from individual spies, but from its community of two hundred thousand Iraqi Catholics. (bookbrowse.com)