active forces
Example Sentences
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But Washington is not seeking to redeploy active forces or reopen the large drone base it built in Agadez, Niger, where it had around 800 troops.
From BBC • Feb. 1, 2026
Russia, with overall active forces of 900,000, is by far the CSTO's most powerful member, and the organisation's unified military headquarters is headed by a Russian.
From Reuters • Feb. 19, 2022
The Defense Department requires that immunization protocols for reserve forces be consistent with active forces, and special requirements during pandemic influenza could be analogized to covid-19.
From Washington Post • Aug. 12, 2021
They are the active forces here, while Archie — for the moment at least — mostly frets and waits.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 25, 2017
But beyond that no action has been taken, and the hundred and more men who might be added to our active forces are allowed to do nothing.
From Indiscreet Letters From Peking Being the Notes of an Eye-Witness, Which Set Forth in Some Detail, from Day to Day, the Real Story of the Siege and Sack of a Distressed Capital in 1900—The Year of Great Tribulation by Putnam Weale, B. L. (Bertram Lenox)
