Sentence examples for fighting readiness from inspiring English sources

But the proposed new set of waivers now before Congress would allow military aid that supports American counterterrorism efforts or contributes to the fighting readiness of the United States and its coalition partners.

In societies where homosexual relationships are encouraged among the military, these boost morale and fighting readiness rather than degrading it.

When it comes to fighting and winning battles, readiness trumps any political agenda.

"Cutting defense and non-defense discretionary spending will diminish our future economic capacity and degrade the readiness of our fighting forces," said BPC policy analyst Alex Gold in a blog post.

The Pentagon explained to these Senators why ""soldiers who are distracted by financial issues at home are not fully focused on fighting the enemy, thereby decreasing mission readiness".

By those criteria, troops on duty in the Balkans separating militias or helping to rebuild infrastructure are eroding their readiness because they are neither fighting nor conducting exercises.

Army officials are not worried about the battle-readiness of their front-line fighting ranks, like infantry and armor troops.

The difficulty in assessing the state of today's military is that the Pentagon's system for measuring readiness ultimately measures only one thing: fighting a major ground war with air and naval support.

During the two-week cease-fire, as political talks inched forward and then ground to a halt, both government forces and rebels have been maneuvering their troops around in readiness for a new round of fighting.

"The government reiterated its readiness to do the same including with those who are fighting on the ground.

The late-1930s was a time when Europe's democratic powers showed both a readiness to appease Hitler's Germany and an ambivalence toward the Communist-backed forces fighting Franco.