During Admiral Mullen's trip this week, which includes a member of our editorial board, he has been talking about the need for "strategic patience".
During Admiral Mullen's appearance before the Armed Services Committee, Senator Carl Levin of Michigan, the committee's chairman, laid out the emerging position of Congressional Democrats by insisting that accelerated efforts to train and equip Afghan security forces should precede any deployment of American troops beyond those already committed by the Obama administration.
1936 Duce to Meet Hitler A visit by Signor Benito Mussolini to the heads of Hungary, Austria and Germany, the three countries connected to Italy by bonds of friendship, has been projected during Regent Admiral Nicholas Horthy's visit to Rome, it was learned today [Nov. 28] from a well-informed source, though this information has not yet been officially confirmed by Italian circles.
On 7 February 2007, during JMSDF Admiral Eiji Yoshikawa's visit to Australia, Yoshikawa and RAN Vice Admiral Russ Shalders presided over a ceremony held aboard to honour M-24s crew.
After a hard but inconclusive fight during which Admiral Brézé was killed, the French fleet withdrew to Toulon leaving the sea to the Spanish, who decided not to pursue them to relieve Orbetello.
She hesitates to impart bad news, then issues commands with the vocal force of an admiral during inspection.
The Roman commander, nevertheless, persisted in forcing his troops into the city; he succeeded in seizing the Carthaginian admiral during a parley and induced him to withdraw.
Made grand admiral during World War II, he was the first to suggest a German invasion of Norway, and he supervised the subsequent planning and execution of the invasion of Denmark and Norway (1940).
James D. Watkins, a Navy admiral during the cold war who was later enlisted in battles far from the sea and submarines he knew best, as energy secretary under the first President George Bush and as the head of a presidential commission on AIDS, died on Thursday at his home in Alexandria, Va.
She became a receiving ship and flagship of a port admiral during the last years of the Napoleonic Wars, until being broken up in June 1814.
Vettor Pisani participated in the Boxer Rebellion of 1900 and the Italo-Turkish War of 1911 12, during which her admiral nearly caused a diplomatic incident with the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
