Sentences with phrase «us army chief»

Notably, the military has put a greater emphasis on tunnels, naming them as a primary threat in army chief Lt. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot's «IDF Strategy» paper.

Netanyahu said he was unsure and followed the advice of his army chief and defense minister.

People's Liberation Army chiefs aim to ensure that applicants are in tip - top condition to join the rank and file of the world's largest military force.

He was Myanmar's army chief responsible for operations in Rakhine state, where Washington and much of the world say «ethnic cleansing» of Rohingya Muslims has occurred.

I sincerely believe the Army chief of staff (CSA) when he says readiness is his number one priority.

Prime Minister Shahif Khaqan Abbasi and army chief General Qamer Javed Bajwa condemned the attack.

Jahangir for a time took strong steps to check his pervasive influence but, faced with an uprising by one of his army chiefs who was an adherent of Shaikh Ahmad, came to terms with him.

The Navy and Air Force had no objection to the letter, but the Army chief of chaplains, himself a Catholic, was worried that the line about not complying with the law was close to a call for civil disobedience.

The courage of U.S. Army Chief of Staff George C. Marshall, for example: Marshall insisted for two years that the only way to defeat Hitler and his war machine was to land a large force in France, beat the German army, and wrest control of the continent of Europe from the Nazi regime — a point Marshall had to carry against the virtually unanimous opposition of his British counterparts, who, like Winston Churchill, preferred a «periphery» strategy that would peck away at the Third Reich before a quick, end - game invasion administered the coup de grace to a collapsing German empire.

«What happens here is normal,» said Chaplain (Lt. Col.) Carleton W. Birch, spokesman for the Army Chief of Chaplains.

Army Chief of Staff General Douglas MacArthur commanded the infantry and cavalry supported by six tanks.

Militarily Ukraine is also in a very weak position, with a conscript army that could itself fragment into Ukrainian and Russian components if pushed into military action, and a command echelon that seems to be prepared (given the sacking of the army chiefs by both Yanukovych and the new acting president Turchynov) to prefer caution and neutrality rather than be an instrument for splitting the country any further than it already is.

Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwaan ally of the army chief and a veteran of the country's struggle for independence, was sacked on November 8 by Mugabe for showing «traits of disloyalty».

Army chiefs in Afghanistan will be given everything they need to do their job, the prime minister has said.

A week ago, Boko Haram killed 30 people and injured 20 others in raids on three villages near the home of the Nigerian army chief.

Army Chief Gen. Kayani hopes the Siachen issue should settle down so that both countries «don't have to pay the cost» and Prime Minister Gilani wants to resolve it alongside other unresolved issues.

According to the Army Chief, «The aim of Operation LAST HOLD is the total defeat of the Boko Haram Terrorist sect in northern Borno.

Outspoken former Army chief General Sir Richard Dannatt has revealed he stopped working for the Conservatives after the general election.

Mnangagwa, 75, was sacked by the president on November 6 in a move that pushed infuriated army chiefs to intervene, triggering a series of events which led to Mugabe's ouster.

Clive Francis, who plays the dictatorial army chief, Major Rice, is spectacularly unnerving — his thinly veiled racism adds to the atmosphere in his confrontations with the black people of the unnamed country.

«The community where the incident happened has completely been vacated, except the few who were arrested,» the army chief asserted, adding, «Out of those we have been able to identify, two or three who may have been directly involved in the incident, we have handed them over to the police.

With a «heavy heart,» Vice President Bawumia was at the Arakan Officers» Mess at Burma Camp in Accra together with some army chiefs and government officials to console the family of the late soldier yesterday.

But a statement from the Ministry of Defence on Monday, signed by Col. Tukur Gusau, the Public Relations Officer to the Minister, Mansur Dan - Ali, said the CDS, Olonisakin, the army chief, Buratai, the air chief, Abubakar, and the naval chief, Ete - Ibas, would continue in office.

The army chief said: «The situation requires vigilance.

Chief of Accounts and Budget, Major General Jehadi Ezra Jakko in his address, commended the Army Chief for approving resources that enabled us achieve remarkable successes recorded in 2017.

The army added that the attack was a planned assassination attempt on Lt. General Tukur Buratai which was repelled and that the army Chief escaped unhurt.

A number of witnesses were to testify in favor of a marriage equality plank in the platform: Marc Solomon, national campaign director for Freedom to Marry; Allison Herwitt, legislative director for the Human Rights Campaign; Army Chief Warrant Officer Charlie Morgan, a lesbian New Hampshire guardsman with stage - four incurable breast cancer and a plaintiff in Servicemembers Legal Defense Network's lawsuit against the Defense of Marriage Act; Michael Macleod - Ball, the American Civil Liberties Union's chief of staff for the Washington Legislative Office; and Aaron Zellhoefer, a gay delegate to the Democratic National Convention representing the National Stonewall Democrats.

The BNP has had a busy week, with army chiefs making an unprecedented attack on the party for using military imagery to sell its political message.

The army chief said that ground troops supported by Nigerian Air Force fighter jets would continue to hit the forest until the insurgents were eventually cleared.

The former army chief also told the authors that Cameron messed up the handling of the intervention in Libya in 2011:

Former Army chief General Sir Mike Jackson at the weekend described the «penny - pinching» move as «virtually incredible».

The probe curiously did not also include General Buratai, current army chief who was in charge of army procurement at relevant periods in the investigation.

In 2016 when President Buhari gave instructions for the investigation of two former Chiefs of Army Staff, Azubike Ihejirika and Kenneth Minimah and 52 other serving and retired military officers, the investigations excluded General Dambazau who had served as army chief under late President Yar» adua.

The value of purchases purported to have been made by the general were $ 419,000.00 and at least N42.2 million and some of the payments for the second purchase were made by an army finance professional days after Buratai became army chief!

The Gambia's army chief, previously seen as a close ally of Mr Jammeh, seems wary of action.

In testimony last week before the House Armed Services Committee, Army Secretary John McHugh — who represented Stefanik's district in Congress between 1993 and 2009 — and Army Chief of Staff Gen. Raymond Odierno warned that drastic funding cuts could harm the Army's ability to meet its most basic combat goals.

The Army Chief said that no local government area in the country was under the occupation of the Boko Haram.

«I hope it's not just a budget - cutting exercise» On the prospect of defence cuts, former army chief General Sir Mike Jackson told Channel 4 News: «I seem to recall Dr Fox in his first speech saying there will be cuts — an interesting opening gambit and not one I care for.

Troops Foil Ambush on Army Chief; kill 10 Boko Haram terrorists» Capture 5.

He charged them to thoroughly investigate and unravel the allegations made by the former army chief.

The panel also summoned over 292 serving and retired top officers who served under the three former Army chiefs.

General Babangida saluted the courage and determination of President Muhammadu Buhari, Army chiefs as well as armed men and women and other security personnel for their sacrifice for the painful liberation of Sambisa Forest and adjoining abode of Boko Haram.

The former army chief said he wanted «freedom» and «social justice», echoing the slogan of the 2011 revolution.

He will probably rise to Army Chief of Staff some day.

It continued that the cover on the alleged misappropriation of the vehicle by the army chief was blown by Adeti's successor, Brig M Whajah, GOC, Southern Command.

People danced in the streets following his downfall, some brandishing posters of Mnangagwa and army chief Gen. Constantino Chiwenga, who led the takeover.

Military tanks were heading towards Zimbabwe's capital Harare on Tuesday, 24 hours after army chief, Gen Constantino Chiwenga, warned President Robert Mugabe of takeover.

The COAS, who was represented by thethe Army Chief of Administration, Maj. - Gen.

Continuing, the Army Chief noted that contemporary national security needs and Nigeria's territorial size required more than the army presently had in terms of personnel strength.

The army Chief made the disclosure just as he noted that plans were afoot to establish a new army division ion the South - South part of the country (6 division), where the 82 division in Enugu and 2 division in Ibadan have been supervising military affairs.