(1) They sent naval forces to protect merchant shipping.

(2) An American naval force is showing the flag in various Mediterranean ports.

(3) The multinational naval force policing sea trade to Aqaba would then be dismantled.

(4) Naval forces were all we could spare.

(5) India has been rapidly expanding its naval forces to include nuclear-powered submarines and long-ranged naval aircraft.

(6) September 14(), 2011: Turkey is threatening to send naval forces into seas around Cyprus in order to monitor Greek Cypriot and Israeli off-shore natural gas projects.

(7) And still there was not a scrap of information about enemy naval forces.

(8) We therefore deploy ground and air forces in Europe and Asia, and naval forces worldwide.

(9) The mission of the Navy is to maintain, train and equip combat-ready Naval forces capable of winning wars, deterring aggression and maintaining freedom of the seas.

(10) At war, it can also aid the ground and naval forces to gain victory.

(11) 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.

(12) For example, the MSSR 2000 I interrogator is operated by the naval forces of Germany, France, Norway and Finland for the military friend-or-foe identification (IFF).

(13) It was the first foreign mission for China's new naval forces.

(14) The report, given by Vice Adm. Lowell E. Jacoby , director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, stated that "with the exception of naval forces, Iran's military modernization has been stagnant."