troops

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The U.S. is the Lebanese Armed Forces’s biggest backer, providing more than $3 billion in funding since 2006 and offering training for Lebanese troops.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026

Additionally, President Trump deployed 2,000 National Guard troops to bolster the immigration agencies swarming the area.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 7, 2026

That comparison might sound hyperbolic since Vietnam was a 20-year meat-grinder of a war that cost the lives of more than 50,000 Americans and something like 3.5 million Vietnamese, both troops and civilians.

From Salon • Jun. 7, 2026

The huge operation, which took place on 6 June 1944, saw British, American and Canadian troops storm beaches along the Normandy coastline to begin the liberation of France from Nazi occupation.

From BBC • Jun. 6, 2026

On February 24, German troops overran the entire outer trench zone.

From "The War to End All Wars: World War I" by Russell Freedman