interservice

Examples

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• The military organized an interservice training exercise to improve cooperation between the Army and Navy.

• Sharing openly would have benefited all of us, but interservice rivalry for money made that impossible.

  Blog text (32)

• Unfortunately, limits were promptly placed on interservice competition as a goad for innovation.

  Academic text (1999)

• As a result of an interservice agreement reached following its creation as a separate service, the Air Force won responsibility for providing CAS for Army troops engaged in ground combat.

  Academic text (1990)

• Joint military educational institutions were eliminated, allowing each service to train its officers independently, thereby reducing the possibility of interservice collaboration among potential conspirators.

  Academic text (2000)

• Thus, when Congress and the administration found it necessary to reduce revenues and expenditures, the stage was set for a bitter interservice debate about roles, strategy, and finance.

  Academic text (1992)

• But the chair shares the narrow, defense-focused point of view of the service chiefs, so the new organization has, in fact, been able to keep interservice rivalry from escalating to a politically visible level.

  Academic text (1999)

• Appeasement had the further drawback of allowing seriously needed military reforms, such as downsizing, to become blocked by interservice rivalries and bureaucratic inertia.

  Academic text (2000)

• Political leaders also came to discourage interservice competition because it was raucous and seemed wasteful to the public, who appreciated the virtues of duplication and friction less in a market of government agencies than they did in a market of firms.

  Academic text (1999)

• During the joint operation, the interservice collaboration led to greater efficiency in resource allocation.

Synonyms

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interforce

vsinterservice

• Specialized

6.9

Shared by two or more military services that work together

refers specifically to cooperation among armed forces branches

I

interbranch

vsinterservice

• Jargon

6.8

Between different parts of an organization, like government branches

focuses specifically on cooperation among armed forces branches

How Coordinated

unified

127 4.1

integrated

2 3.8

interservice

• Formal

7.5

coordinated

3.9

joint

571 3.5

Surface Forms

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Etymology