expeditionary

• “America, with its efficient armed forces, with its unique experience in expeditionary missions, will be in an excellent position during the coming debt-renegotiating rounds.”

  Whose Debt is it, Anyway?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty

• “Such developments, as Rumsfeld saw them, would help the United States react in expeditionary style to unforeseen emergencies, prosecute the war on terrorism, and hedge against a rising Chinese military without unnecessarily provoking it.”

  What Rumsfeld Got Right

• “In layman's terms, I suppose the difference is that, in expeditionary warfare, we move in to beat up the natives while, in counter-insurgency, we stay still and they beat us up.”

  Defence – where the debate should lie

• “The building is known as the expeditionary judicial facility.”

  The Washington Post: At least $500 million has been spent since 9/11 on renovating Guantanamo Bay

• “As I said, if we are building the kind of foreign service and -- that is expeditionary, that is going into very difficult, dangerous areas, to carry out the civilian side of the work of helping a country like Afghanistan rebuild, then we should think about what are the benefits of that service?”

  CNN Transcript Sep 11, 2008

• “The brigade's mission has been called expeditionary because of the undeveloped region to which it's assigned.”

  Newswatch 50: Local News

• “Many Germans oppose giving NATO an "expeditionary" function.”

  The Huffington Post: Doug Bandow: Germany's Lesson for America: Wars of Necessity, not Choice

• “The authors do insist that 21st-century "expeditionary" warfare will need versatile surface ships? and that defence is not a discretionary spending item even for impoverished coalitions.”

  The Guardian: New era, same old defence cuts

• “Army Colonel Paul Hughes, who was part of a Pentagon "expeditionary" outfit called the ORHA, was tasked to draft a political-military plan for postwar Iraq.”

  Lionel Beehner: Why Our Feith-Based Iraqi Policy Failed

• “A Northern Sovereignty Support Centre will be established in Goose Bay, N.L., and the 439 Combat Support Squadron at Canadian Forces Base Bagotville, Que., will be expanded and redesignated as an "expeditionary" unit to better support domestic and international operations.”

  Conservative campaign promises: other shoes drop/CF strength increases

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