Regional adversaries can deploy substantial conventional air, land, and sea forces.
We have ample, untapped striking power in our air and sea forces should the need arise to deter or punish aggression whether on the Korean Peninsula, in the Persian Gulf, or across the Taiwan Strait.
Australia offered a base for American forces in sea-handy Darwin.
The water was gin clear and the huge kelp fronds were in a mad rhythm of bending, then standing straight up, swinging and heaving to the forces of the sea.
"The regime attacked the town of Beyda and other neighboring areas from the sea with rockets before security forces and militias loyal to the regime entered the area and conducted mass executions, " Free Syrian Army chief of staff Gen.
It is a reminder that, were Scots to back independence, this would mark the beginning and not the end of a long, tortuous process of negotiation between the Scottish and Westminster governments - over currency, the monarchy, the armed forces, North Sea oil revenues, pension rights and much more besides.
It may close a shipping shortcut to North Korean vessels, and conduct joint training exercises with American maritime forces in the Yellow Sea.
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In this regard, it was noted with considerable concern that Moscow has to date made only modest reductions in its sea-based and other nuclear forces compared to the deep cuts the United States has already effected or is currently undertaking.
Japan's armed forces were present as observers during the Sea of Japan war games.
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The vessel was seized by Israeli forces in international waters in the Red Sea early on Thursday and is being held in the port of Eilat.
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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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.
The huge boulder perched just above the sea has nearly been ripped in half by the natural forces that continue to carve and shape the granite coastline.
"It enables the regime to deter foreign forces looking to supply the opposition from the sea, or from undertaking a more active role if a no-fly zone or a shipping embargo were to be declared at some point" he told the Times.
During the Falklands War in 1982, the North Sea ferry Norland was involved in landing Royal Marines and other forces in San Carlos Water.
On any given day half of America's naval forces are deployed round the world to secure the sea lines of communication, bolster security and stability, confront international terrorist activity and piracy, and help ensure economic prosperity.
Last weekend a combination of heavy seas, tidal forces and winds caused flooding and damage on the North Sea coast from Shetland to East Lothian.
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.
The most important trait that distinguishes Navy SEALs from all other military forces is that SEALs are Maritime Special Forces, as they strike from and return to the sea.
Western military analysts have noted Russia's use of destroyers and landing craft from the Black Sea and Northern Fleets to back up its feeble Baltic-based naval forces.
But the North may yet respond to sanctions by provoking a conventional forces border clash with South Korea, either on land or sea, as it has done before.
Such a base would allow the PLA to place naval, air and missile forces astride the Palawan Strait, one of the key strategic sea lanes in the Western Pacific, posing a military threat to the Philippines and to the economies of U.S. allies Japan and South Korea.
India's relations with China had been improving and of course China which is modernising its armed forces considerably but its focusing on extending South into the South China Sea.
Basra and Musa Qala not to mention the capture of British sailors and marines at sea by the Iranians in March 2007 have fed American worries about British forces.
Fortunately, one of the few positive repercussions of September 11 has been the sea-change in the political environment with respect to providing adequately for the armed forces and for homeland security.
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And it pits large government agencies with a strong interest in propaganda (the Israel Defense Forces and its digital outreach team, for instance) against a swarming sea of people with cell phone cameras and mobile connectivity.
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Security forces closed roads in and out of Port Said, which sits along the Mediterranean Sea at the northern entrance of the Suez Canal.
It ended suddenly when German forces surged through the low countries, conquered France, and threw the British into the sea at Dunkirk.
Foreign forces have frequently caught pirates off Somalia, disarmed them and then put them back to sea because there is no local authority to deal with them.
The head of the council, Mustafa Abdel Jalil, told the BBC the rebels needed not only a no-fly zone but a sea embargo, weapons, and humanitarian assistance for the cities which have been besieged by Col Gaddafi's forces.
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