Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's removal is not a specified military objective of the action.

BBC: Cameron: Libya UN resolution makes mission 'difficult'

Kijevo, the Serb authorities rather edgily reply, will be their next military objective.

ECONOMIST: Kosovo

Again, the noose -- if I would just make the clear point that it is not the military objective of the NATO mission authorized by U.N.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

He and Cap Weinberger made no secret of the objective: military superiority.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: 'Courage'

Incredibly, the fact that this might still be an "important" objective of the old Soviet military-industrial apparatus is as absent from the thinking of senior Clinton Administration policy-makers as it was from their predecessors' during the Bush-Gorbachev years.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Center For Security Policy

The Malian military, he said, now has the objective of retaking all northern Mali, adding: "If the (air) support is significant, it won't take more than a month for Gao and Timbuktu" to return to government control.

NPR: US Begins Transporting French Troops To Mali

"Military men are trained to fight, attain an objective, defeat an enemy -- all others are secondary, " he says.

CNN: Olive-Drab Bureaucrats

When he took office in January of 2009, you could ask 10 members of the United States military -- or the previous administration what our objective in Afghanistan was and you would get 10 different answers because it was so unclear.

WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing

But McCain wrote, it's a terrible failing for a president to call on military force and then not use enough to achieve the objective.

NPR: McCain's Foreign Policy Has Disparate Tones

Our objective as leaders, whether captains of industry, athletic coaches, or military officers, should be to foster an environment where people can perform at their best, can expect to be safe from abuse, and are empowered to step up and perform at a higher level.

FORBES: Winning Takes Care of Everything

The company already satisfies the military's needs for all-terrain vehicles and has expanded that relationship with the objective of generating 50% to 100% growth in 2009.

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Nigerian military spokesman Brig Gen Olukolade said the army would continue its operation "as long as it takes to achieve our objective of getting rid of insurgents from every part of Nigeria".

BBC: Nigeria army's offensive to continue 'as long as it takes'