Sentence examples for protracted occupation from inspiring English sources
But the index doesn't capture the key drivers of inequality in the country: protracted occupation, recurrent conflict and the denial of Palestinian rights.
* Ground forces: Even during the Gulf War, when our troops were perched within striking distance, the prospect of invading Iraq to overthrow Saddam was a political nonstarter due to concerns about potential quagmire, protracted occupation and antagonizing regional allies.
Pentagon officials were especially concerned that the United States not be drawn into a protracted occupation of Afghanistan, as had occurred with the Soviets more than two decades prior.
The proud, professional volunteer force constructed since Vietnam was not built for a protracted occupation, an eventuality that, in any case, the nation's political leadership reflexively rejected out of hand.
The same holds for our protracted occupation of Afghanistan and subsequent incursion into Pakistan.
While painful lessons from Iraq and Afghanistan argue against protracted occupations by American troops, it is worth limited and surgical strikes by the United States and its allies to at least give those Libyans who would follow in the footsteps of Tunisia and Egypt a fighting chance at freedom.
Obama's defense budget wisely continues the conventional dominance of the U.S. Army and Marines while making the active forces too small to conduct protracted foreign occupations and counterinsurgency wars.
In Iraq, as of the end of 2012, there are 2.1 million people living in protracted displacement, their world unraveled because of the US occupation and inter-ethnic strife.
They are also protracted.
Conflicts are becoming more protracted.
