Sentence examples for maintaining a force from inspiring English sources

President Bush and Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld are telling the military that it should put missile defenses and future combat systems above maintaining a force capable of fighting and winning two wars simultaneously.

Maintaining a force of volunteers carries with it certain obligations, incurred by citizens and institutions that benefit from the military service of others, an obligation that ensures that military service is treated as something more than simply a vocation.

White House officials are already thinking about maintaining a force of 3,000 to 9,000 troops in Afghanistan, after the major troop withdrawal begins in 2014 -- a number much lower than what Gen. John Allen has requested, which is a force of 6,000 to 20,000 troops.

Russia maintained a force of some 1,500 troops in Transdniestria.

Britain maintains a force of four nuclear submarines that patrol year-round carrying Trident missiles.

Obama's statement put an end to months of wrangling over whether the US would maintain a force in Iraq beyond 2011.

France, which had colonized Djibouti (pronounced ji-BOOT-e) before it became independent in 1977, still maintains a force of 2,800 strong here.

The firm maintains a force of 600 armed men based in Baghdad's Green Zone to protect embassy and other United States government civilian employees.

The Pentagon has budgeted about $65 billion to maintain a force of about 68,000 troops, meaning that each additional 1,000 U.S. soldiers in Afghanistan would cost about $1 billion a year.

Unlike Russia, which still maintains a force of more than 5,000 warheads from the cold war, China has deployed a minimal nuclear force, primarily 18 single-warhead land-based CSS-4 missiles.

The United States Central Command, the military headquarters that oversees a region from the Horn of Africa to Pakistan, has maintained a force of roughly 20,000 troops, about 175 aircraft and 14 ships, anchored by an aircraft carrier.