Also continuing are large-scale North Korean drills that Seoul says involve the army, navy and air force.
Among other things, it publicly allowed the U.S. Navy and Air Force to use its ports and airfields.
For an island nation, that would require only a modest navy and air force, and a small army.
The next president may also choose to strengthen Indonesia's navy and air force.
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has said that he wants to reduce these losses by strengthening the navy and air force.
Now the emphasis has shifted from ground troops to the navy and air force, which would spearhead any attack on Taiwan.
Members of the army, navy and air force lined the procession route, with office workers hanging out windows in some places.
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Each project has its own lobby, and its own role in the perpetual rivalry between America's army, navy and air force.
It is building a modern navy and air force, upgrading its nuclear-armed ICBM force and beginning to operate in a power-projection mode.
The navy and air force have to cut 5, 000 jobs each, the Army 7, 000 and about 25, 000 civilian staff working at the MoD face redundancy.
But the defence of Indonesia's vast archipelago from outside powers part of the armed forces' official job, after all needs a competent navy and air force.
STOVL for the marines' version of the aircraft, while staying as similar as possible to the more conventional models going to the navy and air force.
Twenty years ago, Congress lifted the ban on women flying in attack aircraft, and now the Army, Marines, Navy and Air Force all have women pilots.
Plans are also underway to temporarily redirect money from Navy and Air Force pay accounts to the Army's operating account to support our troops in Iraq.
Veterans who served in the Army, Royal Navy and Air Force - as well as personnel from New Zealand and Fiji - were all exposed to radiation.
Given a choice, a lot of senior people in the Pentagon would clearly prefer to spend that sort of money on sharpening up America's army, navy and air force.
The idea is to let the army, navy and air force concentrate on external threats, while improving the ability of the police to maintain law and order at home.
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Under the Strategic Defence and Security Review (SDSR), announced in 2010, the navy and air force have to cut 5, 000 jobs each, the Army 7, 000 and about 25, 000 civilian staff working at the MoD face redundancy.
The annual promotion round at the end of March would provide an opportunity: all being well, navy and air force officers could again be favoured, as they have recently, to promote a balance with the army.
This week the SDF and U.S. Navy and Air Force launched a massive 16-day joint exercise off the southern islands of Kyushu and Okinawa involving 47, 000 men (10, 000 Americans), 30 ships, a U.S. carrier, and 240 aircraft.
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On defense, I reduced spending on nuclear programs, reduced troop levels to pre-Iraq levels, reduced the Navy and Air Force fleets, canceled weapons programs, and reduced the number of troops in Iraq and Afghanistan to 30, 000 by 2013.
Conway has been the most vociferous in expressing the concerns he shares with the other chiefs of the Army, Navy and Air Force about engaging in social experimentation that risks breaking the only armed forces we have during wartime.
On Thursday, a spokesman for the South Korean Defence Ministry, Kim Min-seok, said Pyongyang had been observed carrying out "various drills involving the army, navy and air force, " and that further exercises were being prepared, the Yonhap news agency reports.
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In a huge and sprawling country such as Indonesia, there is also a case for channelling more of the army's resources to the navy and air force, which can do a better job of defending the archipelago against piracy and smuggling, as well as countering any genuine military threats.
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They are a mixture of Green Berets, Rangers and the Delta Force from the Army, the Seals (which stands for Sea-Air-Land) from the Navy and the Air Force's combat controllers and para rescue teams.
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