"army" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- In the 70's, they wanted a hollow army.
- Rejection of Isolationism We must not go back to the days of "the hollow army."
- The Army's Chief of Staff in 1980, Gen. Edward C. Meyer, told Congress that his was a "hollow army."
- We went that route in the 1970's, and we have no intention of returning to the days of the "hollow army" again.
- But the President also could not resist getting in a plug for his budget plans, cautioning the 1,003 members of the United States Military Academy class of 1993 that "just as our security cannot rest on a hollow army, neither can it rest upon a hollow economy."
- A full accounting of how the post-Vietnam military, a "hollow army," in the famous phrase of Gen. Edward C. Meyer, became a world-bestriding force has yet to be written.
- Shortly after General Edward C. Meyer became Chief of Staff in 1979, he said he led a "hollow army."
- The Chief of Staff from 1979 to 1983, Gen. Edward C. Meyer, describe the force he inherited as a "hollow army."
- Toward the end of the Carter Administration, the Army's chief of staff, then, Gen. Edward C. Meyer, told Congress that he led a "hollow army" that had a large share of unqualified soldiers and a lack of weapons, ammunition and supplies.
- A shortage of volunteers for the 740-mile front was widely reported and some American intelligence officers began saying the Iranians had a hollow army.
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