The countries of the G-8 will help this peacekeeping force with deployment and logistical needs.
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.
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?
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.
The regime in Khartoum is stopping the deployment of this force.
It has called on the West African regional bloc, the Economic Community of West African States (Ecowas), to speed up the planned deployment of a force of more than 3, 000.
He also called for quick deployment of an international force to help uphold the fragile cease-fire in Lebanon.
Mr Ban echoed Mr Araud's call for rapid deployment of an African force.
Tactically, in fact, the deployment of the International Force for East Timor (INTERFET) has gone as smoothly as planners could have hoped.
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The BBC's Maud Jullien in the capital, Kinshasa, says the government believes the M23 is trying to disrupt the deployment of the UN force.
But U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice insists that any truce would have to be part of a wider deal that includes Hezbollah's withdrawal from the Lebanese-Israeli border and the deployment of an international force.
The UN Security Council has called for the "swift deployment" of an international force to Mali.
However, there is a growing consensus, including for the first time Israel's, on the deployment of an international military force.
Control would still reside with the contributing nation-state that hired the private security company, and contracts can be designed to maintain control of the duration of deployment and implementation of armed force.
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He said preparations were "gathering pace" for the deployment of a West African force, including 600 troops from Nigeria, and 500 each from Niger, Burkina Faso, Togo and Senegal, and 300 from Benin.
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon with working with West African nations and the African Union to submit to the Security Council within 45 days "detailed and actionable recommendations" in preparation for the deployment of an international military force in Mali.
However this is directly at odds with reports that at least one counterterrorism force was already in place there ready for immediate deployment.
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France has been pushing for the swift deployment of an African Union-backed force, the International Support Mission to Mali (Afisma), to take control of Malian towns.
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Mr Bamba said any adjustments to the size of the force would need to be offset "by the deployment of qualitative resources, such as surveillance drones for the border zone between Ivory Coast and Liberia".
The promised deployment of a hybrid UN-African Union force in Sudan's ravaged Darfur region is flagging badly.
Only then would mandates accelerate the deployment of cheap, clean energy rather than force more expensive clean energy technologies on the market.
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The requirement to perform two such operations in an overlapping time frame, while maintaining other critical deployment and retain a strategic reserve would strain a force of this size and character, perhaps to the breaking point.
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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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The campaign will continue "as long as it is necessary" to defend Mali's embattled government and allow the speedy deployment of an African-led peacekeeping mission and a European force that will train Malian troops, Le Drian said.
The division had received deployment orders to be part of what was termed a follow-on force, and was preparing to move to the region with its heavy armor equipment.
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But, given the difficulty the government will face in keeping a force of this size and composition in the Gulf indefinitely, this week's deployment suggests it is planning for a relatively early and short war.
United Nations officials have asked the Security Council to approve the deployment of 3, 000 more peacekeepers to bulk up the 17, 000-strong force already spread across Congo.
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The most important difference is Israel has not agreed to have an international force stationed in Gaza as it accepted (and in Livni's case, championed) the deployment of UNIFIL forced in South Lebanon.
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