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.
The suspension of Mr Mara and the former land forces commander in October came because of allegations of a planned counter-coup.
It signed a defense agreement with Syria's Ministry of Defense, and even more provocatively conducted a three-day joint land forces exercise with the Syrian military.
NATO's European land forces might just as well be deployed in Bosnia building bridges literally and metaphorically as hanging around the German plains, waiting for non-existent Soviet tanks.
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.
"We surrounded the valley north of Gao, which we believe serves as a logistics base for jihadist groups, and we began to search methodically, " AFP quotes French land forces commander General Bernard Barrera as saying.
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.
Ethnic-Albanian residents of Pristina, the provincial capital, fear that this will only harden the resolve of Serb soldiers and unleash more killing and would be dismayed by a comment this week from William Cohen, America's defence secretary, that he personally saw no need to send land forces to Kosovo.
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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The Kavkaz 2012 war games in which land and air forces, border guards and the Black Sea Fleet are participating are scheduled for Sep. 17-23, the week before Georgia's elections.
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Mohammed, who comes from Helmand, says: "The withdrawal of British forces will land me in deep trouble".
The mere act of attending a rally or throwing a stone at beefy armored security forces can land you in jail.
Regional adversaries can deploy substantial conventional air, land, and sea forces.
Given the uncertain fate of land-based nuclear forces, timely deployment of the new class of ballistic-missile subs could have a material impact on the durability of American civilization in the current century.
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 Islamic world's states that are taking part in this war, particularly the Gulf states, mainly Kuwait, the land base for the Crusader forces, will not be excluded from this.
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.
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