Sentences with phrase «troop presence»

Therefore, they have no interest in having a large troop presence in East Asia.

McChrystal did not try to force the president's hand on whether to increase the foreign troop presence in Afghanistan.

Since his election, Trump's pushback against Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis on expanding the Afghanistan troop presence (which Trump backed down on) and his promises to bring back 2,000 Americans in Syria «very, very soon» (let's see) play strongly with his base.

In 2016, for example, Kyrgyzstan canceled a project with several Russian companies to build five hydropower plants, citing the Russian entities» inability to secure financing.28 In Tajikistan, the Russian military has periodically been unable to pay its local Tajik staff at its base there, even though the base purportedly serves as a key bulwark in Russia's defense against regional instability.29 That same year, Moscow pledged over $ 1 billion in security assistance to Dushanbe and promised to increase its troop presence in the country by 2,000 soldiers.30 Yet neither appears to have materialized, which raises questions about Russia's true capacity and willingness to respond to a security crisis in the region and to project influence there.

Not exact matches

It is why Britain is a leading member — alongside the United States — of the coalition working successfully to defeat Daesh; why we have agreed to send 800 troops to Estonia and Poland as part of NATO's forward presence in eastern Europe; why we are increasing our troop contribution to NATO's Resolute Support mission that defends the Afghan government from terrorism; and it is why we are reinforcing our commitment to peacekeeping operations in Kosovo, South Sudan and Somalia.

«Our affiliation with the CENTURY 21 System allows us to not only grow our market presence beyond what we could have alone, but, more importantly, we are able to look outside our base markets for accelerated growth and to make bold, strategic moves like the partnership we announced this past April with Southern California's Troop Real Estate, a 29 - year unaffiliated brokerage with 550 agents and 14 offices in and around Ventura and Los Angeles counties in California.