Sentence examples for naval alliance from inspiring English sources
And do not be seduced by the prospect of a great naval alliance.
In a separate summitry at the G-20 confab in Brisbane, Australia, Obama -- meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott -- forged a tripartite naval alliance between the U.S., Japan, and Australia.
Meanwhile, Obama also forged a new tripartite naval alliance with Japan and Australia even as Vietnam and the Philippines announced major moves -- Vietnam receiving new submarines and the Philippines announcing a new buildup of its scrawny forces -- to counter China's aggressiveness in the South China Sea.
These included questions surrounding at least scores of civilian deaths caused by NATO action, which have been documented by independent researchers and the United Nations alike, and accusations by survivors and human rights organizations that alliance naval vessels did not assist boats in distress carrying migrants who later perished at sea.
Diplomatic alliances, naval training and even sales of defence equipment are also on the agenda.
Beijing is also mobilizing military forces potentially capable of surgically slicing through the arc of bases, naval armadas, and military alliances with which Washington has ringed the world island from England to Japan since 1945.
After World War I, steps were taken to modernize Malayan defenses and, with the lapsing of the Anglo-Japanese alliance, to build a large naval base in Singapore.
Its strategic location and Black Sea air and naval bases make it attractive to the alliance.
The report found that the United States accounted for about 40percentt of the alliance's ground forces, 65percentt of naval tonnage and 40percentt of tactical airpower.
However, Nicosia's membership would be of little military value, since Russia has no significant naval presence in the Mediterranean and Greece already offers the alliance naval facilities.
Still, the defense ministers' agreement in principle on a naval blockade to stop oil shipments put the alliance and Russia on a potential collision course.
