Communicate strength of military branch? (8)
I believe the answer is:
airforce
'military branch?' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I cannot tell whether this works.
'communicate strength' is the wordplay.
'communicate' becomes 'air' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should believe this answer much more).
'strength' becomes 'force' (synonyms).
'air'+'force'='AIRFORCE'
'of' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Another definition for airforce that I've seen is " service".)