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  • AQI also recorded detailed battle plans for attacks that would take place over the course of three months; the organization maintained pay sheets for brigade-size units of hundreds of men; it recorded the detailed minutes of meetings, kept prisoner rosters, maintained death lists of enemies, and kept the records of vehicles in its motor pool.

    The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

  • AQI also recorded detailed battle plans for attacks that would take place over the course of three months; the organization maintained pay sheets for brigade-size units of hundreds of men; it recorded the detailed minutes of meetings, kept prisoner rosters, maintained death lists of enemies, and kept the records of vehicles in its motor pool.

    The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

  • AQI also recorded detailed battle plans for attacks that would take place over the course of three months; the organization maintained pay sheets for brigade-size units of hundreds of men; it recorded the detailed minutes of meetings, kept prisoner rosters, maintained death lists of enemies, and kept the records of vehicles in its motor pool.

    The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

  • AQI also recorded detailed battle plans for attacks that would take place over the course of three months; the organization maintained pay sheets for brigade-size units of hundreds of men; it recorded the detailed minutes of meetings, kept prisoner rosters, maintained death lists of enemies, and kept the records of vehicles in its motor pool.

    The Longest War Peter L. Bergen 2011

  • And we focused particular efforts on the capstone pre-deployment exercise, a brigade-size, multi-week event at the Army's combat training centers in the Mojave Desert, central Louisiana, and Germany.

    Petraeus salutes 'Team Kagan' at AEI 2010

  • Short of a U.N. army, the report said, peacekeeping operations could form several brigade-size forces of 5,000 troops each that could deploy in 30 to 90 days.

    UN Peacekeeping System Still A Work In Progress 2010

  • Thousands of soldiers in three brigade-size formations pushed into Gaza after nightfall Saturday, beginning a long-awaited ground offensive against the area's Hamas rulers after a week of intense aerial bombardment.

    Israeli Forces Invade Gaza, Besiege Biggest City 2009

  • General David McKiernan has asked Washington to boost US troop numbers with the addition of an extra brigade-size combat force, beyond an already flagged 10,000 increase in the US military presence.

    Afstan: Considerably fewer additional US troops now coming in near future? 2008

  • ROBERTS: Not too long ago, Senator Cornyn, you were somewhat critical of Senator John Warner, Republican of Virginia's suggestion that perhaps a brigade-size contingent forces should come home sometime around mid December.

    CNN Transcript Sep 11, 2007 2007

  • In some areas, you have Iraqi security forces that are conducting brigade-size operations.

    CNN Transcript Jul 25, 2006 2006

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