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an operation that is assigned by a higher headquarters
the planes were on a bombing mission
How To Use military mission In A Sentence
- Gone was the era of gunboat diplomacy, gone the treaty port concessions, gone the specially conceded naval bases, the military missions, the ill-disguised interference in Chinese affairs.
- But the Pentagon has stressed that the official end to Operation Iraqi Freedom - the US military mission in the country - remains scheduled for the end of the month.
- And next month, we will change our military mission from combat to supporting and training Iraqi security forces.
- According to conventional accounts, the city's radicalized population catapulted the Guomindang northward in 1926 on a political and military mission to reunify the nation.
- A second conclusion concerns the age-old maxim never to deploy a force without giving it a clear military mission.
- Lapan says the planning is focused mainly on naval and air forces, and that so far no orders have been received to launch any type of military mission in or around Libya.
- Other extremist rabbis voiced the same sentiment, and, under Brigadier General Avichai Ronzki's command, the IDF's rabbinate theologized military missions and fed messianic dogma to young minds. Religious Fundamentalism in Israel
- Gone was the era of gunboat diplomacy, gone the treaty port concessions, gone the specially conceded naval bases, the military missions, the ill-disguised interference in Chinese affairs.
- —President Barack Obama said the long, divisive Iraq war will reach its formal end on Thursday, when an American flag in Baghdad signifying the U.S. military mission is ceremonially lowered and returned to the U.S. Obama Lauds Troops as Iraq War Winds Up
- IN SHALAMCHE, IRAQ Along this dusty border crossing that links Iraq with erstwhile enemy Iran, there is growing evidence that it is Iran that holds the upper hand at the twilight of the U.S. military mission here. Anxiety along Iraq's border with Iran