The Atlantic Force and the Pacific Force consisted of the bulk of all conventional forces.
The Conventional Forces in Europe and START I treaties and the Chemical Weapons Convention are cases in point.
The United States sends its most elite operatives (SOCOM) into Afghanistan way before it sends in conventional forces.
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Under the currently proposed Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) agreement, the United States might remove one division from Europe.
The Base Force proposed a 25 percent reduction in conventional forces and reductions in the U.S. strategic nuclear arsenal.
Agreements are imminent on strategic arms, chemical weapons, conventional forces and nuclear testing.
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The Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty, signed in 1990, limits the number of conventional weapons countries are allowed.
But Sir Jock reckons that any money saved would almost certainly go back to the Treasury, not the conventional forces.
Lobov, who recently averred that the U.S. military buildup could "wreck" the Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) talks underway in Vienna.
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START, conventional forces and chemical arms agreements, for example, will stipulate that the required destructions of weapons be carried out over protracted periods.
START, conventional forces and chemical arms pacts, for example, will stipulate that the required destructions of weapons be carried out over protracted periods.
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It says the government should invest the billions saved by cancelling Trident in Britain's conventional forces, which would otherwise face further cuts by 2020.
China and Russia are building up their conventional forces, for example.
President Bush said that America would reopen talks with North Korea , broken off three months ago, to discuss missiles, nuclear concerns and conventional forces.
In 1991, the United States and the Soviet Union resolved differences over the Conventional Forces in Europe treaty, clearing the way for a superpower summit.
The Kremlin is also pressuring the United States to modify a new section of the Conventional Forces in Europe treaty, which sets limits on troop levels.
Russia might use nuclear weapons in response to a conventional attack, says Mr Rybkin, in part because its own conventional forces are in so parlous a state.
President Bush is credited with rescuing the NATO summit from a possibly divisive exercise and turning it into a display of alliance unity by announcing a major initiative on conventional forces.
As long as there are nations with vast conventional forces to deploy, there will always be a need for a world power to be able to counter those nations with conventional forces.
The Quadrennial Defense Review and Ballistic Missile Defense Review, which Secretary Gates released two weeks ago, present a plan to further strengthen our preeminent conventional forces to defend our nation and our allies.
The Atlantic Force, with primary responsibility for Europe and the Middle East, consisted of a relatively small set of units providing forward presence backed up by heavy conventional forces, including a large ground contingent.
In other words, the short-term benefits of President Bush's conventional forces proposal will almost certainly be more than offset by the long-term damage done by the erosion it entails in the Western negotiating position.
The net effect of encouraging European public opinion to expect an accord within roughly a year will be to intensify the pressure to complete a conventional forces treaty irrespective of its terms or flaws.
He proposed that the talks on Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) include limits heretofore resisted by NATO, namely on troops (notably a common ceiling requiring a 30, 000-man reduction in U.S. forces there) and on aircraft.
Pat Donahue, hadn't thought Nuristan had much strategic value, so conventional forces hadn't been posted there, and no one had troubled to find out much about the native people, the Nuristanis, a distinct and outlying ethnic group within Afghanistan.
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But if the billions to be poured into new defences come at the expense of the proper modernisation and reorganisation of America's conventional forces, then he will simply have made the world a bit safer for more conventional sorts of violence.
With the successive budget cuts eviscerating our conventional forces, it is not clear how much of a fight the military leadership will put up to preserve weapons that may be the ultimate guarantor of our security but that some deem unusable.
This is occurring despite the recommendations of U.S. negotiators against preparing accords on strategic forces, conventional forces in Europe and chemical weapons under an artificial deadline and mounting evidence that the Soviet military is hardening its position in the arms talks to achieve tactical advantages under these circumstances.
Violations of arms control accords: In the process of bringing forces to bear in the Transcaucasus region, Russia would appear to have violated ceilings -- or be about to -- on the numbers of troops it can have there under the terms of the Conventional Forces in Europe agreement.
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