Sentence examples for modern armed forces from inspiring English sources

Modern armed forces use either a voluntary recruitment scheme or a form of conscription to supply the people needed to staff the military.

But modern armed forces are rapacious consumers of energy and kick out vast quantities of carbon – emissions that may contribute towards human harm well beyond the battlefield.

Heroic was the first work of fiction I had read that included the story of a member of the modern armed forces.

But it will take "several additional years" for China to achieve a "minimal level of combat capability" with them, says the report.The Pentagon does say, however, that China is steadily closing its technological gap with modern armed forces.

As in modern armed forces, striving to earn promotion presumably became a way of life for ambitious individuals, whose loyalties were thereby most effectively shifted away from kinship groupings and harnessed to their hope for bureaucratic advancement.

"That's why we've outlined a long-term, military-led strategy, to invest £4bn in training facilities fit for our strong and modern armed forces and better accommodation to deliver more stability for military families," he said.

The military unit and its leader also give their names to a modern armed force unit and modern military equipment.

He entered the military at the age of 12 and became a protégé of Yamagata Aritomo, creator of the modern Japanese armed forces.

He wants to end the pretence of Japan's "self-defence forces" and call them what they are: modern, well-equipped armed forces.

Cameron said: "Having modern, technologically advanced and flexible armed forces to protect us and our interests is vital.

Scrapping an outdated symbol of its superpower days, the Kremlin said today that it would abandon its largest electronic eavesdropping post in the West, at Lourdes, Cuba, and spend much of the savings on modern weapons for its armed forces.