Developing the necessary expeditionary capabilities is a major feature of NATO s transformation process.

Because of the expeditionary nature of today s military operations, that system is an anachronism.

In April 1940, the United Kingdom and France came to Norway's aid with an expeditionary force.

The Russian Expeditionary Force was a World War I military force sent to France by the Russian Empire.

The air detachment is known as the 1st Netherlands Norwegian European Participating Forces Expeditionary Air Wing (1 NLD NOR EEAW).

Large proportions of NATO allies armed forces are still better suited for static territorial defense than for the expeditionary type of operation needed in Afghanistan.

Three years later, with Emperor Tewodros still refusing to release them, the British dispatched an expeditionary force of 13,000 troops, 26,000 camp followers, and 44 elephants.

In the 20th century, the Portuguese Expeditionary Corps participated in World War I on the side of the Allies in the European western front and Africa.

Again an Expeditionary Force was sent to France, only to be hastily evacuated as the German forces swept through the Low Countries and across France in 1940.

At the same time the Allied powers sent several expeditionary armies to support the anti Communist forces in an attempt to force Russia to rejoin the world war.

On 25 April 1945, a general partisan insurrection by the Italian resistance movement broke out and on 29 April, troops of the Brazilian Expeditionary Force entered the city.

But it is not possible to convert territorial forces into expeditionary forces overnight, and the costs of transformation often must compete with the costs of deploying forces for operations.

Nations that cannot afford to field expeditionary forces capable of performing the full spectrum of 21st century missions should make greater use of specialization to enhance their contribution to Europe s collective defense.

Last April, the leader of the UK s opposition Conservative Party, David Cameron, explained why we should establish a real operational fund for NATO expeditionary missions, with every member state required to contribute.

Paris fell to the Germans on 14 June 1940, and the French leaders surrendered on 24 June 1940 after the British Expeditionary Force was evacuated from Dunkirk, along with many French soldiers.

The Italian Expeditionary Corps in Russia fought under General Giovanni Messe, who acknowledged the limitations of his Corps in material and equipment and thus was relieved of his command on November 1, 1942.

American forces can be rapidly deployed by the Air Force's large fleet of transport aircraft, the Navy's 10 active aircraft carriers, and Marine expeditionary units at sea with the Navy's Atlantic and Pacific fleets.

World War I On 11 September 1914, New Britain became the site of one of the earliest battles of World War I when the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force landed on the island.

The Mars Expeditionary Complex , or 'MEK ' (1969) was another Soviet proposal for a Mars expedition that would take a crew from three to six to Mars and back with a total mission duration of 630 days.

Pakistan has sent 12 relief sorties of C 130 aircraft to Sri Lanka and Indonesia, and the Pakistan navy has dispatched three helicopters, an expeditionary force, a medical team and engineering support equipment to those countries.

Ottoman Empire conflict, 1917 1918 In March and April 1917, at the First and Second Battles of Gaza, German and Ottoman forces stopped the advance of the Egyptian Expeditionary Force, which had begun in August 1916 at Romani.

The Pope had been forced out of Rome as part of the Revolutions of 1848, and Louis Napoleon sent a 14,000 man expeditionary force of troops to the Papal State under General Nicolas Charles Victor Oudinot to restore him.

The most important part of the treaty stated that In July 1386 John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster, son of the late king Edward III of England and father of the future king Henry IV of England, landed in Galicia with an expeditionary force to press his claim to the Crown of Castile with Portuguese aid.