Visit the crisis, he says, brandishing his little rapid-reaction force, before the crisis visits you.
Mr Powell has also supported the European Union's plans to set up a European rapid-reaction force.
They should be withdrawn, said Mr Murtha, leaving a rapid-reaction force in the region.
The new force will probably comprise 17, 600 troops, including a rapid-reaction force, plus a further 3, 000 police.
Already there is a greater emphasis on better-trained rapid-reaction forces.
To this end Mr Robertson promises to replace the present elderly aircraft carriers with two bigger ones, plus a rapid-reaction force able to handle two Bosnia-size crises at a time.
That puts an onus on training, military exercises, and making sure the NATO Response Force, which is meant to provide rapid-reaction forces for deployment at short notice, is up to the job.
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Uzbekistan doesn't mind contributing military units to the rapid-reaction force "but does not consider it necessary for the moment" to attach emergency responders, drug-control forces and other special services, organization spokesman Vitaly Strugovets told Interfax.
France, sensing an opportunity to push on with its aim of creating an EU standing army, wants to deploy a rapid-reaction force of some 1, 500 European troops but is so far being blocked by Germany.
In theory, such flare-ups should offer the European Union a chance to show some military mettle for all its talk of having a rapid-reaction force of its own, but in practice the Macedonian crisis comes when Europeans are still wholly unready for reaction.
After all, he said, the international coalition is supposed to leave after its operation in Afghanistan is completed, whereas Russian forces in Kant which are part of the rapid-reaction forces of the Commonwealth of Independent States' Collective Security Treaty, which includes Russia, Armenia, Belarus, Kazakhstan, Kirgizstan and Tajikistan will be stationed in Kirgizstan on a permanent basis.
Rapid-fire reaction to health care will be swift and furious, from the campaign trail, professional punditry, and halls of government.
These are not states with well-trained Rapid Reaction Forces, nor the airlift or support to inject a sizeable presence into hostile territory.
One option being discussed is an over-the-horizon British rapid reaction force based at sea.
The strategic rationale for swift-moving expeditionary forces, be they Army or Marines, airborne infantry or special operations, is self-evident given the likelihood of counterterrorism, rapid reaction, disaster response, or stability or security force assistance missions.
The problems are compounded by Turkey, which, fearing it will be shut out of decision-making by the EU, is blocking a framework statement on NATO's readiness to permit the future European Rapid Reaction Force to use alliance resources for crisis-management when NATO is not involved.
In 1991, NATO defense ministers approved a radical shakeup of its forces in post-cold war Europe, including creation of a Rapid Reaction Force.
The European Rapid Reaction force will have to become a powerful reality - not because of misplaced continental ambitions, or somehow to spite Nato, but to fill a dangerous void.
The television producers had a camera isolated on Mr. Gore for reaction shots, and their directors edited the videotape of his expressions into a rapid-cut sequence.
After his meeting with Jospin, Schroeder was expected to chair a meeting of the Franco-German defence and security council, charged with laying the groundwork for a European rapid reaction force of 60, 000 troops, envisioned by 2003.
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