Land forces, aided by the navy, would advance to Constantinople, and Turkey would surrender.
Sir Michael Walker arrived on Tuesday to command all NATO's land forces in this mission.
Dannatt is due to step down next year and be replaced by an advocate of a troop surge in Afghanistan, General David Richards, who currently commands British Land Forces.
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But he said the land forces could continue their assigned missions if they were cut to their pre-2001 levels of 175, 000 for the Marines and 482, 000 for the Army.
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The experience in Desert Shield demonstrated that limits on lift assets and the lack of prepositioned equipment affects the ability to deploy any but light land forces to halt the aggression.
Jack Keane, then the Army's deputy chief of staff, told the historians of his reaction to a June 2003 decision to transfer control of all coalition troops away from the land forces command that had been preparing for the mission.
It is distinct from Congress' power to enact laws that govern the land and naval forces.
Absentee crofters being evicted for not using their land have joined forces to challenge the decision and may take their fight to the European courts.
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Mohammed, who comes from Helmand, says: "The withdrawal of British forces will land me in deep trouble".
Unions were at the peak of their power, strikes wracked most western economies, and inflationary forces prowled the land.
The European Union has agreed to expand its mission against Somali pirates by allowing military forces to attack land targets as well as those at sea.
But correspondents say that the rebels seldom used the route because they knew it would make their forces vulnerable to land and air attacks by the army.
The tide has changed and a south wind forces me to land this particular day on the shore near the Tomales Bay Oyster Company, which sits across the water from Inverness.
Hundreds of British and Afghan forces are moving by land and air towards the town of Saidabad.
Local business leaders, including ski resort executives, established task forces to deal with land use and traffic.
He stressed his commitment to the armed forces' capabilities on land, air and sea and said Britain needed to retain the scope to intervene abroad.
It won a wide following for offering practical and moral help to people who were coming off the land and out of the armed forces and trying to find work, food and a place to sleep in Japan's bombed-out cities.
The Security Council resolution, which passed unanimously, expands upon existing counter-piracy tools, including a stipulation that would allow for national and regional military forces to chase pirates onto land -- specifically into Somalia where many of the pirates are based.
The Security Council resolution, which passed unanimously, expands upon existing counter-piracy tools, including a stipulation that would allow for national and regional military forces to chase pirates onto land -- specifically into Somalia, where many of the pirates have their bases.
Erosion: wearing away of the land, usually by the action of natural forces.
We are also standing against the forces of extremism in the Holy Land, where we have new cause for hope.
There will be no new commitments to "nation build" again, or re-train police and security forces in a far off Arab land.
Neither Britain's small, professional forces nor Germany's large, conscript forces were designed to fight an offensive land war against a medium-sized European power.
He aimed to show that Mladic was directly responsible for atrocities carried out by his forces, who were fighting for control of land in ethnically mixed Bosnia.
He said he would show that Mladic was directly responsible for atrocities carried out by his forces, which were fighting for control of land in ethnically mixed Bosnia.
However, if Washington believes its national interests are at stake, then it would put its forces in harm's way even for a land little known to its people.
First, as a maritime power we and our allies and friends are critically dependent on naval forces to a measure far beyond that of a land-power like the Soviet Union.
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Seizing the opportunity provided by Dr Fox's plans for decentralisation, General Sir Peter Wall, the head of the army, asked Major-General Nick Carter, a former commander of NATO forces in Afghanistan and the director-general of land warfare, to carry out a review that would shape the army of the future.
Then, in December, the European Court of Justice agreed to review a complaint from three French animal-rights campaigners, backed by the European Commission on Human Rights, who say that the French law letting shooters on to smallholders' land violates property rights and freedom of association because it forces people to become de facto members of the local field-sports association.
Police worked with the armed forces and fire service in Hampshire, using military trucks and Land Rovers to get to motorists stranded on the A3(M).
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