Usage of "military elite"

русский

элитные войска

португальский

tropas de elite

испанский

tropas de élite

каталонский

tropes d'elit

Military forces deemed to be of higher quality than standard troops.

Related terms

military specialism

элитные войска

Синонимы

Examples for "elite troops"

A column of elite troops quickly descended to put the mutiny down. 
 Reuters 

But at least a dozen elite troops rejected the process and went missing. 
 Reuters 

The incident prompted the interior minister to send elite troops to the area. 
 Reuters 

France has roughly 200 elite troops operating under U.S. command near Afghanistan's border with Pakistan. 
 Reuters 

The President enjoyed the banter among his elite troops. 
 Terminal Compromise 

The Hawk Clan formed the elite corps of Akkad's soldiers. 
 Quest for honour 

Some say it's an elite corps, others say otherwise. 
 The bourne ultimatum 

Gert's brother, Danie, worked as a diamond driller, the elite corps among the Copperbelt miners. 
 The power of one 

Missionaries were often seen as an elite corps. 
 The Irish Times 

An elite corps of hard-boiled investigative journalists sniffed out this well-hidden Web page: Careers with Sidewalk. 
 Wired 

Security and elite forces are conducting an operation, he said. 
 Radio NZ 

And McRaven also testified that his elite forces just love hunting networks of bomb-makers. 
 Wired 

Allen's elite forces have an impressive intelligence base to from. 
 Wired 

That essentially reverses Petraeus' campaign plan, which has accelerated raids by elite forces to degrade the Taliban. 
 Wired 

The KGB's elite forces, like our SEALs. 
 A Bloody Storm 

Usage of military elite in английском

It was, in effect, the permanent rule of an occupying military elite. 
 Stonewielder 

He would sit at the table for the military elite, I with the royal family. 
 Nefertiti 

There were royal musicians, military elite and indeed, queens. 
 Ebony 

Maduro maintains the backing of Russia, China and Turkey, and the support of the Venezuelan military elite. 
 The Guardian 

Revenues from those reserves are tightly held among the ruling military elite whose cronies dominate other businesses. 
 Reuters 

Widodo, a former furniture salesman, is Indonesia's first president to come from outside the political and military elite. 
 Reuters 

He is set to become Indonesia's first leader not to have emerged from the political or military elite. 
 Reuters 

Widodo, the country's first leader from outside the political and military elite, had pledged to pick experts in various fields. 
 The Guardian 

Actor George Clooney has accused South Sudan's political and military elite of being involved in "massive criminal behaviour". 
 BBC 

What the growing economic pressure could do instead, however, is supercharge existing power struggles within the political, clerical and military elite. 
 Reuters 

The former furniture salesman and small town mayor is the first Indonesian president from outside the country's political and military elite. 
 Reuters 

The longer his father lives to ensure his gradual acceptance within the ranks of the political and military elite, the better. 
 Reuters 

The yellow shirt activists are drawn broadly from the ranks of the urban middle class and support the traditional royalist- military elite. 
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Meles comes from the Tigryan ethnic group, who make up only 6 percent of the population but dominate the political and military elite. 
 Reuters 

Should Morsy prevail, he may be frustrated by an uncooperative military elite, for all the generals' pledges to cede power by July 1. 
 Reuters 

Prime Minister Meles is from the Tigrayan ethnic group, who make up 6 percent of the population and dominate the political and military elite. 
 Reuters 