NOUN
- an organization of military vessels belonging to a country and available for sea warfare
How To Use naval forces In A Sentence
- Like Britain, Japan has a military posture with a strong maritime balance, one in which naval forces provide the operational flexibility to deter, defend and intervene in the region and beyond.
- The nuclear waste shipping fleet is aging and unescorted by naval forces, it is however armed.
- In the early morning hours of November 13, 1942, two naval forces fought one of the fiercest engagements of World War II.
- Particularly noteworthy is the accounting of the use of such operations by our naval forces worldwide and the positive impact they had in counteracting enemy planning and operations.
- Navy Romanian naval forces in the Black Sea consisted of four Italian-built destroyers, four torpedo boats, three submarines, three minelayers, one submarine depot ship, three gunboats, and one training ship.
- North and South Korean naval forces exchanged fire Tuesday in disputed waters, South Korea's semi-official Yonhap news agency reported. POLITICAL HOT TOPICS: November 10, 2009
- He even proved uncannily accurate in anticipating the Florida launch site, Pacific Ocean splashdown, and recovery by U.S. naval forces of the Apollo missions.
- States to keep troops in time of peace, and they are expressly distinguished and placed in a separate category from land or naval forces in the sixteenth paragraph above quoted; and the words _land_ and _naval forces_ are shown by paragraphs 12, 13, and 14, to mean the Army and Navy of the Confederate States. The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government
- By this formula MacArthur could pick the time and place of battle, using air and naval forces to protect his flanks while concentrating combat power for the next thrust.
- A special emphasis is placed on raising and training mobile forces, comprising a part of land troops, including paratroops, as well as aviation and naval forces.