Kagan rejects the position of lawmakers and some military commanders that the U.S. simply doesn't have fresh troops available.

NPR: Iraq Report 'Recipe for Defeat,' Says Right Wing

If successful, Marjah will be a model for future operations that are to unfold as thousands of fresh U.S. and European troops arrive in the coming months to take part in the latest surge of allied forces into Afghanistan.

WSJ: Ahead of Marjah Offensive, Afghan Officials Sought to Negotiate With Taliban

Though it opposed any military action by outsiders, it eventually had to sanction the intervention by Zimbabwe, Angola and Namibia, all of which had sent troops to Congo to save Mr Kabila from fresh rebels supported, in their turn, by Rwanda and Uganda.

ECONOMIST: South Africa

All available milk was needed fresh for the people, or dried and condensed for the troops.

ECONOMIST: Robert Rich | The

After launching a fresh rebellion in the east last year, the Rwandans flew thousands of troops and rebels across Congo to attack the capital, Kinshasa.

ECONOMIST: Congo

Now, the Lebanese government's making a fresh move to secure peace -an offer to dispatch 15, 000 army troops to South Lebanon, along with U.N. sponsored forces, so long as Israeli forces withdraw.

NPR: Lebanon Hosts U.S. Diplomat for Conflict Talks

So with the current session due officially to end on December 9th and fresh assembly elections scheduled for April 2004, bills dealing with issues ranging from next year's budget to troops for Iraq have been in limbo.

ECONOMIST: South Korea