garrisoning

'The Pastoralist Executive at Tunumburra have asked us cattle-owners who – are more likely to be let alone than the sheep-men, to help in garrisoning the sheep-stations; and I've promised to ride over to Breeza Downs to-morrow and do my share in protecting the place.

Lady Bridget in the Never-Never Land 1915

Ruth rented a room at the Vanderbilt Hotel for the week, but Donovan spent little time there because festivities and the chores of garrisoning his men at nearby Camp Mills consumed practically every minute.

Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld’s notion that troops could be replaced by growing numbers of oil-powered super-weapons no longer appears viable, even for a power already garrisoning much of the planet for which “unending” war has become the new norm.

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

Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld’s notion that troops could be replaced by growing numbers of oil-powered super-weapons no longer appears viable, even for a power already garrisoning much of the planet for which “unending” war has become the new norm.

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

Ruth rented a room at the Vanderbilt Hotel for the week, but Donovan spent little time there because festivities and the chores of garrisoning his men at nearby Camp Mills consumed practically every minute.

Wild Bill Donovan Douglas Waller 2011

The military of the self-proclaimed single greatest power of planet Earth, whose leaders once considered the occupation of the Middle East the key to future global policy and planned for a multi-generational garrisoning of Iraq, had been sent packing.

Tom Engelhardt: Debacle! Tom Engelhardt 2012

It was this belief in “Great Game” efforts to install Our Guy as the motive force in foreign policy that led us to hire a bunch of Talibuddies to guard the back door at Tora Bora while there were 30,000 American troops garrisoning Kabul.

Matthew Yglesias » Carter on Gaza 2009

Stationed in Texas and throughout the trans-Mississippi region, soldiers attended to road building, exploring, enforcing federal laws, protecting settlers, patrolling international borders, garrisoning coastal fortifications, and guarding the perimeters of Indian reservations.

Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011

This is why they had 30,000 troops garrisoning Kabul on the day the Talibuddies we hired escorted bin Laden from Tora Bora.

Matthew Yglesias » Experts Call for Lowered Expectations in Afghanistan 2009

With an authorized strength of fewer than 50,000 officers and men between the late 1860s and mid-1870s, the army could rarely commit more than a few thousand soldiers to the Plains due to its other responsibilities: enforcing Reconstruction policies; garrisoning federal arsenals and seacoast fortifications; coping with natural disasters and civil disturbances; escorting scientific expeditions and railroad construction crews; and policing the other Indian frontiers.

Between War and Peace Col. Matthew Moten 2011