Sentence examples for competent forces from inspiring English sources

All the fancy planes, helicopters and high-tech weaponry mean nothing without competent forces.

Trotsky chose to concentrate on developing a small but disciplined and professionally competent force.

Mr. Shambaugh said that the goal of China's generals was to turn the People's Liberation Army into a mobile and technologically competent force able to fight "limited wars under high-technology conditions".

Several White House aides described themselves as initially caught off guard by the allegations against Porter, a Rhodes scholar with two degrees from Harvard who had established himself as a professional and competent force inside the West Wing.

Instead, Libya's rebels have entered the grim work of waging war almost spontaneously, and would need time, training, equipment and leadership to develop into even a reasonably competent force.

"It was a well-trained, professional, competent force," he writes.

But without competent ground forces, he said, U.S. and coalition airstrikes will have minimal effect because they cannot teach the "moral component" to fight and die for a common cause.

Between them, the Baltic states have no competent armed forces, no tanks or artillery and a few transport planes that could hardly be called an air force.

The scale and nature of the bugging operation suggests that some very powerful and competent political forces want to push Mr Kuchma out of office.Moscow's joyThe main beneficiary of the scandal so far is the Kremlin.

During a recent reporting assignment in that area, I saw far more competent Afghan forces than I have witnessed before.

Leadership is tone as much as tactics; this is how we build competent Afghan forces".