Sentence examples for maritime capability from inspiring English sources

War seldom takes the expected form and a strong maritime capability provides flexibility for the unforeseen.

Among other analytical clues, over the weekend, one anonymous American official quoted in the Washington Post noted that Lashkar has a known "maritime" capability.

The official note records that: "The point he wished to emphasise was the most serious miscalculation which we would be making is [if] we disregarded the deterrent effect of a major maritime capability in peacetime".

An American counterterrorism official said there was strong evidence that Lashkar-e-Taiba had a "maritime capability" and would have been able to mount the sophisticated operation in Mumbai.

The actual creation of the new force has been nervously awaited in the Asia Pacific region as another sign of China's fast-growing maritime capability and its determination to enforce claims in the South China Sea, as well as the East China Sea.

"What we need is a better capacity to interdict weapons shipments, have a maritime capability, to have cyber defenses, to deal with these asymmetric threats from Iran," he said.

Given the limited maritime capabilities of the littoral states, achieving these goals won't be simple.

Meanwhile, Iran has the potential to mine the Gulf, and the government is removing one of the Royal Navy's minehunting vessels – one of the main maritime capabilities America appreciates the most from the Royal Navy.

Last year Australia announced an agreement with Indonesia to better coordinate search-and-rescue operations in the region, but the latest episode highlights the continuing difficulties facing the agencies, which have wildly different maritime capabilities.

Stone tools found there, archaeologists say, are at least 130,000 years old, which is considered strong evidence for the earliest known seafaring in the Mediterranean and cause for rethinking the maritime capabilities of prehuman cultures.

John had already begun to improve his Channel forces before the loss of Normandy and he rapidly built up further maritime capabilities after its collapse.