Sentences with phrase «u.s. fighting forces»

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However U.S. commanders say the precision weapons used by the air force have meant an overall decrease in the number of civilian casualties from combat operations as fewer people have been killed in ground fighting.

WASHINGTON, April 17 - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed Microsoft Corp's privacy fight with the Justice Department over whether prosecutors can force technology companies to hand over data stored overseas after Congress passed legislation that resolved the dispute.

WASHINGTON, April 17 - The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday dropped Microsoft Corp's privacy fight with the Justice Department over whether prosecutors can force technology companies to hand over data stored overseas after Congress passed legislation that resolved the dispute.

These have included several air strikes against pro-government forces that have sought to advance towards a U.S. military base in southeastern Syria near the border with Iraq, where the U.S. military has been training rebels to fight IS.

By the time fighting ended in July 1953, more than 34,000 U.S. forces had been killed.

Trump's re-commitment of U.S. forces to the fight in Afghanistan makes the stakes high for his administration.

On Friday, U.S. President Barack Obama authorized the deployment of up to 1,500 more American troops to bolster Iraqi forces, including into Anbar province, where fighting with Islamic State militants has been fierce.

Ties between the two countries have been strained over U.S. support for the Syrian Democratic forces, the mainly Kurdish - led militias fighting Islamic State in northern Syria with the help of U.S. forces.

Other forces including a strengthening U.S. economy and renewed fighting in eastern Ukraine will likely push the euro lower, analysts say.

Coca - Cola and the U.S. State Department along with two other companies said on Friday they are launching a project using blockchain's digital ledger technology to create a secure registry for workers that will help fight the use of forced labor worldwide.

Four Royal Saudi Air Force (RSAF) Boeing F - 15S fighter aircraft arrived Feb. 26 at Turkey's Incirlik Air Base to support the U.S. - led coalition fighting the Islamic State in Syria, soon Continue Reading

That obsession led the United States to fight a war against an indigenously supported native guerrilla movement for which the U.S. military was unprepared (the second thesis); so American forces resorted to barbaric tactics and then lied to the American people about them.

Rightly calling attention to the extremely high level of violence in Colombia, Rivera failed to mention the group responsible for 70 percent of that violence: the paramilitary forces which, although ostensibly private and illegal, receive aid and cooperation from Colombia's army and hence, indirectly, from the U.S. Neither did Rivera mention the 2 million people who have fled from the fighting and the aerial fumigation of their farms.

American troops are stationed in 75 countries; each branch of the armed services has its own air force; and in the next year we may learn if the U.S. can pull off what it has been preparing to do since the end of the cold war: fight two regional wars at the same time.

With the NATO bombing of Serbia in its fourth week and facing the prospect of failure, General William Odom, former director of the U.S. National Security Agency, published an essay in the Wall Street Journal urging the ground invasion of Serbia via Hungary: a high «speed armored ground assault charging down through open country in Hungary to attack Serbia from the north while on its southern flank the country is fighting assorted anti «Serbian forces and pockets of the Kosovo Liberation Army.

The document provides the Justice Department's legal rationale for the controversial policy of using lethal force against U.S. citizens fighting on behalf of terrorist groups.

WASHINGTON (Reuters)- Former U.S. military leaders have identified a latent threat to the potential for a leaner, more agile fighting force: the school vending machine.

The Families of Continental Flight 3407 renewed their fight to preserve pilot experience requirements they got written into the law seven years ago, but this time they could be facing their most daunting opponent yet: the chief of staff of the U.S. Air Force.

A top U.S. nuclear regulator has now given a dire assessment of Japan's nuclear crisis, saying that radiation from uncovered spent fuel at the Fukushima Daiichi plant could force emergency workers to abandon their fight to prevent meltdowns there

The top U.S. nuclear regulator, Gregory Jaczko, gave a dire assessment of Japan's nuclear crisis yesterday, saying that lethal radiation from uncovered spent fuel above one of the reactors could force emergency workers to abandon their fight to prevent meltdowns of damaged reactor cores at the Fukushima Daiichi plant.

There is broad agreement that first - rate scientists and engineers have helped make the U.S. military one of the most potent fighting forces in the world, notes the report from the U.S. National Academies» National Research Council and the National Academy of Engineering that was requested by the Department of Defense (DOD).

When the U.S. armed forces set out to develop a fitness program that would hone a lean, fit - to - fight physique, they didn't have the option of waiting around for the next fad diet...... they don't Google fat loss on the internet and sign up for the first advertised guru program they can find...... and they DO N'T buy fat burner supplements by the truckload and issue them at morning roll call.

When the U.S. armed forces set out to develop a fitness program that would hone a lean, «fit - to - fight» physique, they didn't have the option of waiting around for the next «fad diet»...

Dick's film investigates the scandalous epidemic of rape in the U.S. armed forces — the war on women who fight wars.

Then there's the other plot that some sort of Transformer threat has been hidden on or near Earth for many years, it is uncovered, then the Autobots and Decepticons must fight in major cities and / or on major landmarks while promotional footage from the U.S. Armed Forces plays in slow motion amid sunsets.

The movie is based Doug Stanton's 2009 bestseller «Horse Soldiers,» which centers on CIA paramilitary operations officers and U.S. Special Forces sent to fight the Taliban in Afghanistan immediately after the Sept. 11 attacks.

It stars Chris Hemsworth and Michael Shannon and is based on Doug Stanton's 2009 bestselling book «Horse Soldiers,» which centers on CIA paramilitary operations officers and U.S. Special Forces sent to fight the Taliban in Afghanistan immediately after the Sept. 11 attacks.

Following 9/11, Chris Hemsworth leads a team of U.S. Special Forces into Afghanistan where they must learn to fight on horseback.

U.S. special forces are fighting al - Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula.

They strike up a strong friendship and join forces to take on the U.S. government to fight for Native American land rights.

As Efraim explains, big business goes after the big government contracts to supply the U.S. armed forces with what they need to fight in Afghanistan and Iraq.

U.S. and other U.N. forces fought to oppose the invasion of South Korea by Communist troops.

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1912: NEA endorses Women's Suffrage 1919: NEA members in New Jersey lead the way to the nation's first state pension; by 1945, every state had a pension plan in effect 1941: NEA successfully lobbied Congress for special funding for public schools near military bases 1945: NEA lobbied for the G.I. Bill of Rights to help returning soldiers continue their education 1958: NEA helps gain passage of the National Defense Education Act 1964: NEA lobbies to pass the Civil Rights Act 1968: NEA leads an effort to establish the Bilingual Education Act 1974: NEA backs a case heard before the U.S. Supreme Court that proposes to make unlawful the firing of pregnant teachers or forced maternity leave 1984: NEA fights for and wins passage of a federal retirement equity law that provides the means to end sex discrimination against women in retirement funds 2000s: NEA has lobbied for changes to the No Child Left Behind Act 2009: NEA delegates to the Representative Assembly pass a resolution that opposes the discriminatory treatment of same - sex couple

When a contract with a Latin American country goes awry in the midst of intervention by the U.S. forces, Artemis decides to go rogue and fight against their homeland, leading to the activation of the H.A.W.X. squadron once again with Crenshaw and friends at the helm.

Who is actively fighting to ensure government policies shutter U.S. nuclear energy facilities; keep domestic coal, natural gas, and oil in the ground; force up energy prices through taxes and regulations; and endanger national security by installing wind farms near military bases?

NRA will fight U.N. arms trade treaty, argues it would force U.S. to enact strict legislation, Reuters

The U.S. Senate just voted 97 - 2 to pass the Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act (FOSTA, H.R. 1865), a bill that silences online speech by forcing Internet platforms to censor their users.

Washington, DC — The U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6 - 2 this morning that the government can not force private health organizations to denounce prostitution as a condition to participate in a government funded program to fight HIV and AIDS around the world.