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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The value of such agreements has been dramatically challenged, however, by Soviet conduct under the recently completed Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE) Treaty.
He is more likely to agree with the Kremlin that Russia's main defence is its nuclear weaponry, not its massive but ramshackle conventional forces.
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.
India's conventional forces are bigger than its rival's, but unlike India, Pakistan has refused to commit itself never to be the first to use nuclear weapons.
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.
But the North may yet respond to sanctions by provoking a conventional forces border clash with South Korea, either on land or sea, as it has done before.
In any straight contest between conventional forces, a relatively small American-led expeditionary force should be able to wreck the Iraqi military quite swiftly, perhaps in a few weeks.
Rather, the purchase or indigenous production of advanced fifth-generation stealth aircraft, nuclear submarines, anti-ship and other ballistic missiles, new generations of nuclear and conventional forces, space weapons, etc.
The Russians do not appear to have exceeded the limits laid down in the treaty on Conventional Forces in Europe, under which Russia has every right to re-equip its bases.
Yet, for some months the Soviets have stalled on major troop withdrawals and are now characterized by the White House as "stonewalling" the Vienna negotiations on Conventional Forces in Europe (CFE).
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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 Bush Administration should closely reconsider the adequacy of its on-site inspection demands both for the existing INF agreement and for upcoming accords regarding strategic, chemical and conventional forces and nuclear testing.
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