He continues to talk of victory and an indeterminate military presence, if remaining vague about what constitutes victory or how long troops must stay.

Do we need a genuinely global military presence?

However, there was little visible evidence of a professsional military presence behind the barricades last night.

His successor was instructed to reduce the military presence on the streets and begin to restore police primacy.

With aircraft and wireless communications, it didn’t require continuous swaths of land for railroad tracks and telegraph cables to maintain its military presence.