"policy operation" is a correct and usable part of a sentence in written English.
It refers to the actions and procedures carried out to implement a specific policy. Example: The success of the new immigration policy will depend on the efficiency of its policy operation, including screening procedures and enforcement measures.
He suggested that the problems in postwar Iraq multiplied in part because the good ideas emanating from his policy operation were ignored.
That extreme jihadism, which led to 9/11, was nurtured as a weapon of Anglo-American policy (Operation Cyclone in Afghanistan) is suppressed.
Mr. Powell, a Republican, has a friendship of decades with Mr. McCain, but friends say he has felt excluded from Mr. McCain's foreign policy operation and was impressed when Mr. Obama called on him in June.
Mrs. Clinton described her White House issues staff, which has offices in both the West Wing and the old Executive Office Building, "as part of the domestic policy operation in the White House".
Yaki, who is fifty-two, sat in the lobby of the Roosevelt Hotel the other evening and described his assignment, which, he said, would entail "digging through every policy, operation, and practice that Barneys has, and talking to people," before making recommendations.
His piece ends with a broad-based condemnation of the Obama administration's foreign policy operation.
He said the various committees would review the various non-standard policy operations.
And because the Treasury market is already shrinking, the Fed is looking for alternative securities it can use so its monetary policy operations will not be disruptive.
But as the supply of Treasuries shrinks, using them for monetary policy operations could limit the Fed's freedom to act and could create distortions in financial markets.
Perhaps more important, that market is critical to the functioning of the nation's banking system and to the monetary policy operations of the Federal Reserve.
And I would go further than Mann and argue that he oversees one of the most centralized foreign policy operations in history — based principally on his brain power and intellectual self-confidence, not on knowledge or experience.
