Sentence examples for ready forces from inspiring English sources

The ready forces were increased by the creation of three new legions commanded by equites, and one of these, the Second Parthica, was installed near Rome.

With more than 160,000 troops now in Iraq, General Casey warned recently, "We're consumed with meeting the current demands and we're unable to provide ready forces as rapidly as we would like for other contingencies.

And while Mr. Hagel did not discuss it publicly, senior officials said later that the Defense Department has also undertaken a major review of its war plans — including those for Iran and the Korean Peninsula — to measure whether tactics still match ready forces after so many years of conflict focused on counterinsurgency and counterterrorism.

He continued: The current demand for our forces in Iraq and Afghanistan exceeds the sustainable supply, and limits our ability to provide ready forces for other contingencies.... Soldiers, families, support systems and equipment are stretched and stressed.... Overall, our readiness is being consumed as fast as we build it.

They fail to acknowledge that for the past decade -- actually longer -- more money has meant smaller, older, less ready forces.

"This is a very large and very capable and very ready force," he said.

"Force and right," Crummell writes, quoting Arnold, "are the governors of this world; force till right is ready….And till right is ready, force, the existing order of things, is justified, is the legitimate rule".

We got this smaller, older, less ready force not because of less money but because of more.

He quickly formed up two battalions from the confused troops on the field and turned them to meet the oncoming French, a day-saving manoeuvre; instead of attacking with a well rested and ready force, Bougainville retreated while the rest of Montcalm's army slipped back across the St . Charles

When ready, force air into the short tube.

Britain is setting the pace in creating mobile, battle-ready forces, while Italy's army is still dominated by conscripts who use the experience to learn proper Italian (and to escape their families) but are not exactly bursting to fight in foreign wars.In this section Slavic disunion?