Meanwhile, as a new report for The Henry Jackson Society: "Tehran's Servants" by Jonathan Spyer demonstrates, Iran has taken control of a vast force of Shia militias in Iraq that are now dominating much of the country.
A day after President Bush asked Americans to respond to the war on terror with an outpouring of volunteerism, his administration began trying to figure out how to mobilize a vast force of Americans for a still sketchy role on the home front battlefield.
Empowered by some of its vast force of low-wage workers, and a flood of investment from Western companies that seek to take advantage, Chinese exports to the United States have increased at staggering rates in recent years.
As always, the vast forces of mass culture turn out to be the idiosyncratic choices of a few key, mostly hidden players.
The vast forces of the unconscious – the psyche, or "the gods" when Hollis is feeling more lyrical – have their own plans for us.
The question is, do we appeal to what is nihilistic in the audience, or do we accept our responsibility as storytellers and act as mediators to the vast forces of the human soul?
The vast forces of the Crouch End Festival Chorus and London Philharmonic Choir gleefully recreated the gory downfall of the Teutons, and Gatti and the RPO players relished the cinematic immediacy of Prokofiev's scoring, with its furious string writing and ominous, brassy fanfares.
But he does suggest that there is something morally suspect, as well as wrong-headed, about attempts to reduce the vast forces of nature to human experience or to useful predictive devices enabling human beings to achieve their puny ends.
While Lesley gives all visitors an open welcome, Pat treats anyone setting foot on the farm as outlying snipers from a vast invading force of idiots and meddlers.
George C. Marshall, the Army Chief of Staff, was assembling a vast fighting force, and many of the young draftees and volunteers were isolationist, ignorant, or indifferent.
Just last Saturday, Col. Delphin K. Kahimbi, a deputy commander of the vast force trying to defeat General Nkunda, said many rebels had been killed and victory was at hand.
