Sentence examples for for stability operations from inspiring English sources

"It's a very good start," said Jeffrey Nadaner, deputy assistant secretary of defense for stability operations.

It emphasises training, advising, mentoring and equipping indigenous forces for stability operations rather than deploying large numbers of American troops.

"I think the physical expansion of ISAF is a dead letter because nobody wants to do it," said Joseph J. Collins, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for stability operations.

In balance, however, the most serious surprise was that what appeared to be the American A-Team in national security ignored years of planning and months of interagency activity before the war, and the United States had no meaningful plan for stability operations and nation building after the defeat of Saddam Hussein's armed forces.

At the start of the hearing, Mr. Hagel said that the Pentagon was sending a new Army headquarters to replace an ad hoc organization established last year to help the Jordanian military cope with Syrian refugees, prepare for the possible use of poison gas and provide command and control for "stability operations," presumably in a post-Assad Syria.

So after the Pentagon asked for funding last year to keep 100,000 troops ready for "stability operations" around the world — the kind of operation the United States ran in Iraq and Afghanistan — the White House suggested they hadn't read the memo: Mr. Obama is out of the occupation business.

The situation was further complicated when an internal review initiated by incoming Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel concluded that since the U.S. would no longer be postured for protracted stability operations in places like Iraq, the Army should shrink further to 450,000.

The station was conceived of and paid for by the Task Force for Business and Stability Operations (TFBSO), a Department of Defense program that has since been disbanded.

The Pentagon's Task Force for Business and Stability Operations, which had an $822 million budget for projects in Afghanistan between 2010 and 2014, contracted an Afghan company to build the station in 2011 to demonstrate the potential of CNG stations to investors.

McKeon faced off before the subcommittee against John Sopko, the Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR), who described the Defense Department's Task Force for Business and Stability Operations, known as TFBSO, as a "scattershot approach".

During the worst years of sectarian violence, the Pentagon created the Task Force for Business and Stability Operations, led by an intense, taciturn engineer and deputy under secretary of defense, Paul A. Brinkley.