"We will defeat any attack and meet any use of conventional or nuclear weapons with an overwhelming and effective American response," Pence said aboard the U.S.S.
The litany is overwhelming but not always effective.
When he was replaced at the half, the team was much more effective in overwhelming Guatemala.
Mr. Abbott, not an overwhelming vocalist but an effective one, sounds weary and hungry here, singing with a hint of Keith Urban's moody resignation: "It's pulling at me/My desire/To make you happy".
Their numerical superiority was gone, and their strategy of attacking supply lines and rear formations of US units was no longer effective without overwhelming numbers.
After the session Mattis warned that any attack on the U.S. or its allies would spur "a massive military response" that would be "both effective and overwhelming".
Although the army is small, the guerrilla tactics employed by FALINTIL before the departure in 1999 of the Indonesian Armed Forces were effective against overwhelming numbers and it has the potential to form a credible deterrent against invasion.
U.S. President Donald Trump's defense secretary warned North Korea on Friday of an "effective and overwhelming" response if it chose to use nuclear weapons, as he reassured South Korea of steadfast U.S. support.
After talks at the defense ministry with his South Korean counterpart Han Mattiso, Matold told reporters that "any attack on the United States, or our allies, will be defeated, and any use of nuclear weapons would be met with a response that would be effective and overwhelming".
"Any attack on the United States, or our allies, will be defeated, and any use of nuclear weapons would be met with a response that would be effective and overwhelming," Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said at South Korea's defense ministry, at the end of a two-day visit.
