Since the treaty covers only ground forces and equipment, the Soviets argued that these units would not be subject to limits.

The Soviet Union also proposed that the talks cover naval forces near Europe.

The Chinese struck at night, and the ferocious fighting forced the rear covering forces to call in night fighters to suppress the attacks.

It covered all land and air forces, but not paramilitary forces, on which the treaty framework provided only for an exchange of views to take place.

Connections is a quarterly academic journal covering security, defense, armed forces, conflict, intelligence, history, war, and related issues.

It is given in eight-hour segments over two days, with the first day covering vertical forces.

In such cases, sub-sections of the legion had to be redeployed to provide covering and blocking forces until the army had safely navigated the route.

Its editions cover the warships used by the different national naval and paramilitary forces, and provide data on their characteristics.

As the US covering forces were lured away, two other surface forces would advance on Leyte from the west.

It will cover other forces too.