There are 300m Americans, but still not enough to rule the world

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Author(s) Niall Ferguson
Source The Daily Telegraph
Date October 22, 2006
URL http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2006/10/22/do2202.xml
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Quotes-start.png "The number of troops currently in Iraq is less than 140,000. That's roughly as many soldiers as Britain sent to the same country to defeat an insurgency in 1920 — at a time when the population of Iraq was a tenth of what it is today." Quotes-end.png


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This item argues for the position United States should increase troop levels on the topic Post-invasion Iraq.