Others , including the letter 's authors , fear that the " carrier gap " will mean britain loses the ability to carry out autonomous expeditionary missions .
其他人,包括这封公开信的作者都担心“航母缺口”将使英国失去独立实施远距作战的能力。
In any case , they say , the same expeditionary forces would be needed in any crisis , whether in afghanistan or , say , to defend estonia .
它们说不管怎样,同样的远征军是任何一场危机都需要的,无论是在阿富汗还是,比如说,保卫爱沙尼亚。
Modern turkey 's defining event-the defeat of a greek expeditionary force dispatched with western backing-was also the starting-point of a ruthless reform effort whose declared aims included " fighting religion " and ending the theocratic backwardness of the ottomans .
Instead , they argue , britain should humbly focus on meeting the collective security obligations imposed by nato membership , limiting its expeditionary goals to humanitarian interventions approved by the united nations , rather like canada and some of the scandinavian countries .