One exception is the United Kingdom, which has recently pledged to increase its troop numbers in the restive poppy-growing province of Helmand.

唯一的例外是英国，它最近承诺增加它在动乱不安的鸦片种植省 赫尔曼德的兵力。

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But European troop contributions continue to fall short of the 17,000 US troops deployed with the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) and its 8,000 Coalition Force troops outside of ISAF.

但是欧洲贡献的兵力一直低于美国驻守在国际安全协助部队的17000名兵力以及国际安全协助部队之外的8000名联合部队。

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Shortly after the election, the Iraq Study Group offered a bipartisan formula for the gradual withdrawal of United States troops.

选举后不久，伊拉克研究小组提出了一份超党派的、将美国军队逐步从伊拉克撤出的计划。

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Without a grand bargain between the US and the EU that ensures increased European support and troops, success in Afghanistan will be elusive and alliance-testing tensions with the US will remain.

美国和欧盟之间无法达成重要的协议以确保欧洲能提高它的支持力度和兵力，阿富汗的成功只能是镜花水月，而与美国之间的盟友关系将会依然面临考验。

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Twenty-five EU nations have contributed troops to NATO’s 35,000-strong army in Afghanistan, and now represent more than half of all troops.

有25个欧盟国家派兵参加了北约在阿富汗35000人的强有力的部队，差不多占现在全部驻军的一半。

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Now Bush will increase the number of American troops in Baghdad and Anbar Province and try to stabilize both the rising sectarian civil war and the Sunni insurgency.

现在，布什将向巴格达和安巴尔省增兵，并且试图平息不断上升的部落间内战和逊尼派起义。

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The EDC would have created a European army, in which even German troops would have been included.

EDC本可以建立一支甚至包括德国部队在内的欧洲军队。

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Donald Rumsfeld’s dogma of military “transformation” – the technological upgrading of an army’s capacity to enable decisive victory with fewer troops – failed resoundingly in Iraq.

唐纳德·拉姆斯菲尔德的军事“转型”定论—以军队实力的技术升级来实现用更少的部队取得决定性胜利—在伊拉克彻底失败。

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Bush’s new course can be summarized under three headings: more American troops, more Iraqi responsibility, and more US training for more Iraqi troops.

布什的新策略可以用三个标题概括，那就是更多的美国军队、更大的伊拉克责任以及为更多的伊拉克士兵提供更多的美国培训。

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