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Douglas Macgregor, a retired Army colonel well known in national-security circles for his often-pointed criticism of military strategy, said the U.S. needed a broader re-think of strategic priorities, steering clear of interventionist policies and scaling back U.S. military forces that remain garrisoned in Europe and Asia.

Panetta Faces Big Budget Challenges Julian E. Barnes 2011

Because the forts must be garrisoned by the militia in the absence of the regiment, he declared, “I do therefore by virtue of the power and authority with which I am invested as commander in chief hereby require and command you to raise and send one hundred men of your militia,” along with officers, to a fort specified, and remain there until the return of the regiment.

George Washington’s First War David A. Clary 2011

The Zealots obliterated a reinforced legion (Legio XII Fulminata) from Syria, which was heavily garrisoned until the moment the Romans were wiped out at Yarmuk, at the very beginning of the war, and for a time, were in near complete control of Iudaea.

Matthew Yglesias » Toy Drives Checking Immigration Status of Children 2009

The Pentagon will still keep two brigades garrisoned in Europe.

U.S. Reassures Europe on Defense Cuts Adam Entous 2012

Besides losing both world wars in spectacular fashion, near total destruction in the thirty years war, being Napoleons personal chess board, and spending half of this past century partitioned and garrisoned by the competing superpowers, Germany has spent most of its history as a collection of small principalities under varying degrees of rule by Hapsburgs.

Matthew Yglesias » 18th Century Polish Strategic Dilemmas 2010

The British — and Americans — garrisoned the occupied Six Counties very heavily, of course, and no doubt used the facilities of Belfast Lough and Lough Foyle.

The Volokh Conspiracy » “Obama Effect” Spurs Record Number of Nobel Peace Prize Nominations 2010

Abundant oil also underlay the global expansion of the country’s military power, as the Pentagon garrisoned the world while becoming one of the planet’s great oil guzzlers.

Michael T. Klare: America and Oil, Declining Together? Michael T. Klare 2011

Abundant oil also underlay the global expansion of the country’s military power, as the Pentagon garrisoned the world while becoming one of the planet’s great oil guzzlers.

Michael T. Klare: America and Oil, Declining Together? Michael T. Klare 2011

So successful was his preaching that night, that he reconverted many of his converts, who fell and moaned about the penitent form and crowded for room amongst scores of new converts burnt by the pentecostal fire, including half a company of negro soldiers from the garrisoned Twenty-Fifth Infantry, a dozen troopers from the

WHEN ALICE TOLD HER SOUL 2010

They conquered many peoples, expanded far, and garrisoned vast areas of the Mediterranean, North Africa, and what would become Europe, while their legions marched forth, often to victory not to speak of plunder, for hundreds of years.

William Astore: Freedom Fighters for a Fading Empire: What It Means When We Say We Have the World's Finest Fighting Force William Astore 2011