Visit the crisis, he says, brandishing his little rapid-reaction force, before the crisis visits you.
One option being discussed is an over-the-horizon British rapid reaction force based at sea.
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They should be withdrawn, said Mr Murtha, leaving a rapid-reaction force in the region.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.
It will focus on the implications of the new reaction force for Alliance crisis management around the world.
Planes and helicopters filled the valley by late afternoon, and a quick reaction force was on the way.
Then a Quick Reaction Force of soldiers deploys to rescue the villagers and put everyone through a decontamination station.
European leaders are set to take a vital step towards the creation of a Rapid Reaction Force of up to 60, 000 personnel.
But Mr Hague claimed that Mr Blair had been rocked by the strength of opposition to plans for a European rapid reaction force.
In 1991, NATO defense ministers approved a radical shakeup of its forces in post-cold war Europe, including creation of a Rapid Reaction Force.
BRUSSELS, Belgium -- NATO foreign ministers are meeting to discuss for the first time the implications of the European Union's planned Rapid Reaction Force.
The RFTG was created under the 2010 defence review and is a rapid reaction force which deals with unexpected world events that require military intervention.
Ahmad Fahim Qayem, commander of the Afghan Interior Ministry quick-reaction force whose primary responsibility is to deal with such attacks, rushed to direct the response.
The troops were fired on by rocket propelled grenades and a quick reaction force including a helicopter sent to rescue the troops, also came under attack.
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.
In 1995, defense ministers from NATO and European Union countries agreed to set up a "rapid reaction force" to protect embattled U.N. peacekeeping troops from Bosnian Serb aggression.
Led by French chauvinists and Brussels bureaucrats, they now espouse a military alliance without the United States, called the European Rapid Reaction Force ERRF, barkingly pronounced erf!
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The 2, 600 troops, part of the Allied Command Europe Rapid Reaction Force (AARC) headquartered in Rheindahlen, Germany, could be ready to take up position as early as Sunday.
The Marine Corps is a quick reaction force and are experts at conducting amphibious operations, which are considered the most challenging of all military engagements to pull off.
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It has the most formidable, fast-reaction force on the continent.
Many EU leaders object to America's planned National Missile Defence project and the U.S. has made clear its worries that the EU's new rapid reaction force could undermine NATO.
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.
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.
The Bush Administration faces a critical, delicatechallenge in Europe, particularly regarding France: the European Union's move to create a European rapid reaction force, a military entity made up of troops and equipment from various European nations.
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.
He has used his calm skills to tread a careful line on such controversial issues as the EU Rapid Reaction Force and British participation in National Missile Defence, as well as overseeing British forces in military action in Afghanistan.
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