«The insurgents kept the most powerful military the world has ever seen at bay for four years,» says John Robb, a former Special Operations pilot and author of Brave New War: The Next Stage of Terrorism and the End of Globalization. (discovermagazine.com)
Celebrating the 60th anniversary of the Korean War Armistice, Obama threatened to loose the dogs of war: «The United States of America will maintain the strongest military the world has ever known, bar none, always. (colesmithey.com)
My wife is a GS14 (equivalent of an O5) civilian employee of the DoD, and I'm a director at a top FS company, so I often translate ranks / titles for friends in the corporate, government, and military worlds. (financialsamurai.com)