It requires expeditionary capabilities transport aircraft, field hospitals, aircraft carriers, deep-strike bombers and, arguably, a nuclear deterrent.
This force would also require support from civilian air and sealift to sustain two large expeditionary forces.
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Greg Timberlake, forward commander of the III Marine Expeditionary Force at Camp Sendai in northern Japan, said.
The First Marine Expeditionary Force is currently tasked with holding and patrolling the southern portion of Iraq.
So in early 2011 the Marine Corps decided to cancel the Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle and start over.
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There is no outward sign that Iran's expeditionary activities in Iraq have yet become an issue for Iranians.
In fact, later this month, the Marine Expeditionary Unit deployed as part of the surge, will depart Iraq.
The remaining crews spent Monday getting together to "reflect, reset and review, " said 153rd Air Expeditionary Group commander Col.
The U.S. troops include Marines and sailors from the Marine Expeditionary Brigade-Afghanistan.
We have named it the Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance and we describe it as an "expeditionary" office.
Sidney Morey of the 1st Army American Expeditionary Forces, had the text with him during battles in World War I.
America has designed its forces for expeditionary warfare, while most European armies are still configured to defend their own borders.
We're also deploying a Marine Expeditionary Unit, the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson, and the Navy's hospital ship, the Comfort.
But in addition to developing NATO-style expeditionary capacity, these states need to be able to conduct a defense in depth.
We intend to increase combined training for expeditionary operations, for example, to encourage Allied participation in so-called high-end US exercises.
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That requires not surgical strikes by aircraft based in the United States, but expeditionary forces with extravagant basing and equipment.
Those caught in the blast at 22:00 local time (05:00 GMT on Tuesday) were members of the Second Marine Expeditionary Force.
This is most visible over a 2006 plan to move Futenma, the air base on Okinawa for America's marine expeditionary force.
The highlight is iconic Morro do Pico a thin, 1, 023-foot-high peak that surely wowed the Portuguese expeditionary force that discovered it in 1503.
Scott Coombe, product manager for RSEP, a collaboration between ONR's Expeditionary Maneuver Warfare and Combating Terrorism and Sea Warfare and Weapons departments.
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Petraeus said one Marine expeditionary force would be coming home in September, and an Army brigade is slated to return in mid-December.
We were supposed to be expeditionary, but we stayed there for years.
The driving idea behind Marine plans for future expeditionary warfare is agility.
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While Berlin promises that it will actually increase the number of personnel available for expeditionary duties, German military personnel privately express skepticism.
On election eve in Ramadi, a bomb killed a U.S. Marine assigned to the 2nd Marine Logistics Group, II Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward).
Researchers expect a successful product will reduce fuel needs by 40 percent for expeditionary power systems, with a continual output of 3 kilowatts.
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As part of this transition, one Army brigade combat team and one Marine Expeditionary Unit have already come home and will not be replaced.
George Washington met here in 1781 with the Comte de Rochambeau of the French expeditionary army, to plot successfully against the British at Yorktown.
Already, the defense secretary has signaled that he is inclined to cancel the Marines' top ground force modernization program - the Expeditionary Fighting Vehicle (EFV).
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