Some 68, 000 US troops currently make up the majority of the 100, 000-strong coalition force.
Or failing that, the UN-authorised West African coalition force would have been ready to react.
Nevertheless, the Coalition force in 2003 was nearly as large as the one that defeated Saddam Hussein in 1991.
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The attacks killed two police officers and sickened about 350 Iraqis and six coalition force members, the military said.
That prompted the coalition force to call for an air attack on the Pakistani posts, said an Afghan Border Police official in the area.
Originally, coalition troops wanted to isolate the city and any Iraqi forces in it, while the main coalition force moved north, British officials told Amanpour.
And the question is would any violent interaction between Libyan forces and armed civilians or armed rebel forces -- however you want to call them -- necessitate the intervention of the coalition force?
Ms. NULAND: We will still retain in Afghanistan, even when NATO moves east, the coalition force, which is U.S. led, to do the counterterrorism mission, the real hunting and gathering of the real bad actors on the border.
If the demand, as some believe, or unfortunately as some coalition force members who worked in this field believed, that they bring 150-thousand people under the title of Awakening and get incorporated into security forces under a sectarian title, this means taking the country back to sectarian confrontation -- Sunnis and Shiites struggling with each other within the institution.
But it could draw enough voters away from Chancellor Angela Merkel's center-right coalition to force her into an alliance with the opposition or give the opposition an outright majority.
Protest leaders said they would try to build a broad coalition to force talks with the Kremlin, but several prominent activists said they also planned to set up their own political parties.
As a precautionary measure, the ship's Master "implemented aggressive maneuvering at 1945 local time, " before contact was made with the EU Coalition Task Force -- which monitors a protected shipping corridor in the Gulf of Aden -- and passengers were requested to assemble in safe havens.
"A more general approach has focused on Combined Task Force 150 (CTF 150), a coalition naval task force covering the Gulf of Aden, Gulf of Oman, Arabian Sea, Red Sea and the Indian Ocean, " the report states.
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There is not an international coalition for military force to regime -- to force regime change.
However, even though they could defeat and embarrass David Cameron that coalition could not force a new press law into being (since it is the government that controls the parliamentary time needed to pass legislation).
"It is necessary for the protection of the essential security interests of the United States to limit competition for the prime contracts of these procurements to companies from the United States, Iraq, coalition partners and force contributing nations, " the memo said.
At the end of July, a major milestone took place when responsibility for the security of Afghanistan's volatile southern region was handed from a U.S.-led coalition to the NATO force and 8, 000 of its troops.
The Party of the Brazilian Democratic Movement, a ramshackle concoction of regional political barons that is the coalition's biggest force, is trying to secure the presidencies of both houses of Congress, which are being contested at the moment.
"To fight them, I think we have to eventually come up with some arrangement together with our neighbor Pakistan that we should have a combined and joint task force of coalition, Afghans and Pakistanis to be able to operate on the both sides of the borders, " Wardak said.
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If we tried to overthrow Qaddafi by force, our coalition would splinter.
Two days after the Security Council authorized the use of force, a coalition of Western nations launched air and missile strikes against forces loyal to Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi.
Despite much sighing over national sovereignty, many Thais hope the IMF can cut through coalition and bureaucratic bickering and force the government to take the painful measures needed to shore up the financial system and get the economy back on a growth track.
After isolating Israel from the coalition, the administration proceeded to force its democratic ally to the negotiating table to discuss the transfer territory to the Arabs.
It said the Taliban movement "always tries to solve the issue or the problem with the opposite side through talks" and warned the Western coalition that they would "never force the Afghans to obey them by force".
While many professional soldiers feel that an Army with the five brigades, the force established under the Coalition government's Strategic Defence and Security Review (the SDSR), has sunk below a critical level, I would argue that they have probably got off the lightest of the three services.
This year, the U.S. Navy started Combined Task Force 151, a multinational coalition that uses naval ships to fight piracy in the Gulf of Aden region.
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Ayatollah Sistani has never advocated military resistance, but he has already shown that he commands enough support in Iraq to force the US-led coalition running the country to drop or revise several political transition plans.
It is increasingly apparent to both coalition and Iraqi leaders that Iran, through the use of this Quds Force, seeks to turn the Iraqi special groups into Hezbollah-like force to serve its interests and fight a proxy war against the Iraqi state and coalition forces in Iraq.
America's critics worry that this force would be separate from the coalition's own troops.
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