Sentence examples for deployable forces from inspiring English sources

He said Britain would maintain "flexible, highly deployable forces" – something he had personally discussed with Clinton.

NATO reckons the Europeans have only a tenth of the readily deployable forces available to the Americans.So the Europeans have drawn up a wish-list.

Others warn that defence cuts have left Britain with fewer readily deployable forces and that this will reduce its capacity for influence.Yet few policymakers believe this episode will hobble Britain's reputation as badly as the Suez crisis did in 1956.

In setting priorities for investment, the new guidelines list personnel issues, followed by such broad areas as intelligence; missile defense; information warfare; pre-conflict management; precision-guided weapons; rapidly deployable forces; unmanned weapons systems; countering weapons of mass destruction; and infrastructure and logistics.

For roughly two decades the LAV-25 was the only significant U.S. wheeled armoured vehicle program, but in the late 1990s the desire for more rapidly deployable forces convinced the U.S. Army to develop a wheeled armoured vehicle capable of transport by aircraft such as the C130 Hercules.

But more capable, more deployable forces come with a hefty price tag.

"We would be able to maintain a moderate deployable force for a considerable length of time, if required," Mr. Fox added.

Defense Minister Kamp and CHOD Berlijn recently restructured the Dutch military to eliminate layers of bureaucracy, including independent service chiefs, thereby creating a leaner, more deployable force.

Foreign Secretary William Hague held talks with Ms Clinton, the US Secretary of State, during a Nato summit in Brussels to stress that Britain would continue to provide a "flexible, highly deployable force" that "will remain, within the context of Nato, a military power of the first rank".

Fox indicated a reduction in the size of the army when he said after his meeting with Gates in Washington: "We would be able to maintain a moderate deployable force for a considerable length of time if required," adding: "Maybe not exactly at the level we have now but at still a respectable and useful level".

Having a lighter, more deployable force is the way forward.