It included Colin Powell and Dick Cheney, who had helped build the multinational coalition that fought the first Persian Gulf war.
With a multinational coalition like that in Afghanistan, Ambassador Eikenberry said, it is essential to have non-Americans in leadership posts.
Fearing that Iraqi aggression would spill over into Saudi Arabia, Bush swiftly organized a multinational coalition composed mostly of NATO and Arab countries.
The multinational coalition had established a special tribunal, staffed by Iraqi judges and prosecutors, to hold legal proceedings in accordance with international standards.
His plan calls for air strikes in two countries, a multinational coalition, and the deployment of four hundred and seventy-five more service members to Iraq, but, he said, those troops "will not have a combat mission".
Despite the efforts of an American-led multinational coalition, IS controls not only most of Iraq's Syrian border, but its Jordanian and much of its Saudi border too.
Why? First, U.S. forces are playing a constrained and supporting role in a multinational coalition, whose operations are both legitimated by and limited to the terms of a United Nations Security Council Resolution.
Additionally, if we pursue regime change as an objective, we'll severely limit our ability to form a multinational coalition of support as President Bush's father did so successfully during the gulf war.
Meanwhile its gross depredations in its self-declared caliphate in northern Syria and Iraq continued largely unchecked despite intensified bombing by a US-led multinational coalition, reinforced in December by Britain.
Beyond "reversing defense sequestration", Rubio's plan to fight Isis seems to revolve mostly around a fuzzy coming together of "a multinational coalition of countries willing to send troops into Iraq and Syria to aid local forces on the ground".
