"operative branch" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It may also be referred to as the "executive branch" or the "enforcement branch." You can use the phrase "operative branch" when referring to the branch of a government or organization that carries out and enforces laws or policies. Example: "The operative branch of the government is responsible for implementing and enforcing regulations to ensure the safety and well-being of its citizens."
For the mix of spying and politics is an explosive one, and we learn that on the arrival of the Blair government in 1997, Special Branch operatives were obliged to undertake a fair amount of file disposal, a process that impinged on the normal working practices.
Last week, an American drone strike killed several militant suspects in Abyan, including one identified as a midlevel operative for the Qaeda branch.
One was Anwar al-Awlaki, the firebrand preacher, born in New Mexico, who had evolved from a peddler of Internet hatred to a senior operative in Al Qaeda's branch in Yemen.
WASHINGTON — Said Ali al-Shihri, the second-ranking operative in Al Qaeda's branch in Yemen, died recently from wounds he received during a "counterterrorism operation" late last year, Yemen's government announced Thursday.
Mr. Awlaki, a New Mexico-born cleric who the Obama administration contends had become a senior operative in the Yemen branch of Al Qaeda, was killed in a Sept. 30, 2011, drone attack that also killed Samir Khan, an American citizen who had moved to Yemen from North Carolina, and who administration officials say had not been specifically targeted.
Prior to his work with Obama, Gaspard was the lead political operative for the 1199 branch of the Service Employees International Union, a huge and hugely influential union representing health care workers in New York.
And look, it is fine for presidents to install political operatives into most executive branch jobs.
However, the primary characters in the game are from either SOLDIER (the private army of Shinra), or from their elite branch of operatives, the Turks.
The authors, veteran correspondents for The New York Times, delve into a shadowy theater of war: the counterterrorism efforts of American ground troops, intelligence operatives and executive-branch officials since the Sept. 11 attacks.
In 2015, he promoted a paramilitary operative to head the clandestine branch — reportedly the first time a paramilitary officer took on the top undercover position.
