India's Rapid Deployment Force manned roadblocks outside a number of airports, while guards patrolled among passengers, some of whom had their bags checked six times on domestic flights.

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Okay, so what if the strategy sounds more like a rapid deployment force, discussed by the Pentagon for years, than the Powell doctrine of maximum force used in the Gulf war?

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For example, both the Marine commandos and the army's parachute regiment are supposed to serve the new Joint Rapid Deployment Force, but they never train together and, by tradition, despise each other.

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So what if the strategy sounds more like a rapid deployment force, discussed for years by the U.S. Department of Defense, than Colin Powell's doctrine of maximum force used in the Gulf war?

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Mr Ban echoed Mr Araud's call for rapid deployment of an African force.

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In a move that American defence planners might envy, the army, air force and navy will be linked into a single force geared to rapid, long-range deployment.

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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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