Sentence examples for force mission from inspiring English sources
With no Apaches on call, the soldiers called in a "show of force" mission.
It is what the military calls an "economy of force" mission.
He said if the government could demonstrate a benefit to the Australian defence force mission in Iraq "then we obviously have to look at it – but we will be pragmatic and we won't be naive".
The debate over future force levels in Iraq has a direct and immediate effect on operations in Afghanistan, which civilian and military officers concede has been "an economy of force" mission because of the overwhelming demand for troops in Iraq.
If there was some excuse for it, and if it had some success, in the second world war, where McNamara had his first military experience analysing air force mission data, it was peculiarly unsuited to the war in Vietnam.
"Paul Eaton and his team did an extraordinary amount for the Iraqi Security Force mission," said General Petraeus, now commander of the Army's Combined Arms Center at Fort Leavenworth, Kan ."They established a solid foundation on which we were able to build as the effort was expanded very substantially and resourced at a much higher level".
State media quoted a Kremlin aide saying only air force missions, rather than a ground operation, are planned.
"To stand truly shoulder-to-shoulder with our wounded ally [France], we must respond to President Hollande's direct request that the RAF joins the French air force missions against the Islamist extremists' bases in Syria.
"Some of the so-called drone missions are actually Saudi Air Force missions," Craig quoted a US intelligence official as saying.
Israel's best-selling newspaper, Yedioth Ahronoth, said the US National Security Agency, which specialises in electronic surveillance, and its British counterpart GCHQ spied on Israeli air force missions against Gaza, Syria and Iran.
Mindful of this, Netanyahu told reporters Tuesday that he had made it clear to Russian President Putin that Israeli air force missions would continue over Syria.
