Sentence examples for effective army from inspiring English sources

For this they will need an effective army and law-enforcement system.

Air campaigns work only when there is an effective army on the ground.

South Africa's is the most effective army south of the Sahara, and is seen to be neutral by most Congolese.

He revised the law code, built an effective army, and tightened control over his lands and the church.

Despite billions of US dollars and international support, Iraq also lacks an effective army and continues to rely on Shia militia groups and other non-state actors.

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The precise development of these reforms cannot be traced, but they culminated in the much more effective armies of Pompey and Caesar.

Western programmes are fine when they train evolving forces, while not in the midst of an immediate war, and over a long period of time; they have tried and failed to rapidly train effective armies in Iraq, in Afghanistan and now on Jordanian territory to fight in Syria.

Faced with rivals whose economic might enabled them to field smaller, but more effective, armies and navies, both Russia and Ottoman Turkey were forced to devote far larger proportions of their revenue to defense than did the Western imperial powers, with disastrous consequences.

Mauritania, which has one of West Africa's more effective armies, carried out military strikes against Islamist bases in neighboring Mali in 2010 and 2011, and is seen as one of the West's principal allies against Al Qaeda in the region.

Maria Theresa proposed establishing an effective standing army of 110,000 more60,000 more than in her father's day and 30,000 more than the Prussian peacetime army of Frederick William I.