Sentence examples for mixed forces from inspiring English sources

The act strengthened the chairman's role in drafting military strategy and devising the Pentagon's budgets; it created a new position, vice chairman, and it gave important new powers to commanders who would lead mixed forces — land, sea and air — into battle.

Ney arrived with the reputation for boldness considered typical of cavalry officers, but with minimal experience in commanding mixed forces.

Tells about the mixed force now opposing the Vietnamese.

They were a mixed force of marines and Army soldiers, not just marines.

Ingush officials dispute both claims and say they were attacked from Chechnya by a mixed force of Chechen, Ingush and Russian fighters, perhaps with Arab jihadists among them.

Some are convinced of racial profiling by the police, while others insist that does not happen with Atlanta's racially mixed force.

Sudan's foreign minister Ali Karti said the men were "in consultations about the deployment of a mixed force to protect the oilfields in the south".

1801, a mixed force of British & Turks landed near Alexandria, & though the garrison there managed to hold out for a time, Cairo fell.

There are 201 active officers in the Mount Vernon Police Department, a mixed force that is 59percentt white, 30percentt black and 8percentt Latino, according to official statistics.

The Palestinians, vulnerable on many scores, have long been pleading for a mixed force of international observers to report on events on the ground.

Lebanese officials made clear that they had no intention of deploying troops along the border; rather, the mixed force of soldiers and special police will act as an internal security force.