Sentence examples for postwar operations from inspiring English sources

But as the report makes clear, no such intensive training was undertaken for postwar operations.

In Washington, a bitter fight between the Pentagon and State Department over control of postwar operations escalated as reports of unrest in Baghdad caught American officials by surprise.

The Defense Department, which had the lead role for planning postwar operations and reconstruction in Iraq, denied that it had shunned the State Department planning effort.

The report makes nine recommendations, including one for legislation to organize departments and agencies involved in postwar operations along the lines of the 1986 Goldwater-Nichols DepActment of Defense Reorganization Act, which integrated the service branches, strengthened the joint staff and eliminated operational overlap.

But even critics of General Garner, who was replaced on May 7 by a career diplomat, L. Paul Bremer III, say he has been a victim of fierce infighting between the Pentagon and State Department over running postwar operations, and of a security environment he does not control.

In passages likely to add kindling to the debate over whether sufficient troops were committed to battle in Iraq and to the continuing postwar operations, General Franks writes that several of the evolving campaign concepts written before the war projected a maximum of 250,000 troops at the end of the combat phase and into the postwar mission.

Likewise the staffing of our postwar operation on the ground in Baghdad has been broadly inclusive and representative of all these agencies from the beginning.

When Bush's first chief of the postwar operation, the retired general Jay Garner, was replaced by L. Paul Bremer III and recalled from Iraq, in May, 2003, he was taken by Rumsfeld to the White House for a farewell meeting with the President.

Six ships were lost in combat and two were expended in the postwar Operation Crossroads nuclear tests.

Washington also wants to use Nato planning facilities and equipment and has suggested it could play a role in postwar humanitarian operations in Iraq, as it has done in Afghanistan.

A force of 15,000 police officers escorted a train carrying six nuclear waste containers to a storage site in northern Germany in one of the country's largest postwar security operations.