Similar choices would face first responders and troops sent to the stricken area: how close to ground zero could they go, and for how long?

Iraqi forces might be asked to remove the batteries from their vehicles or turn around the turrets of their tanks so they do not face allied troops.

Scud missiles landing in Saudi Arabia and the tanks facing American troops are Soviet made.

Next to the Iraqi Army, perhaps the biggest enemy facing American troops in the Persian Gulf is boredom.

The problems facing American troops are illustrated in troubled western Baghdad.

He'd known he was facing elite troops, but he hadn't expected such an instantly murderous response.

Isolated and facing regular troops with armour and artillery, the invasion force was forced to surrender.

The Naharian fighters had no experience of facing foreign troops like Hajib Shakarbar had.

At Bienen and elsewhere, the Anglo-Canadians faced German troops in prepared positions.

Marathon was the first time a phalanx faced more lightly armed troops, and revealed how effective the hoplites could be in battle.