Sentence examples for Defensive combat from inspiring English sources

ISIS has since been forced into defensive combat.

With only weeks of fighting experience, they lack an understanding of the fundamentals of offensive and defensive combat, or how to organize fire support.

Still, American strike pilots said today that their operations remained intense, because round-trip journeys take a minimum of three hours and many missions have to be devoted to time-consuming and defensive combat air patrol operations.

Charles L. Cragin, the principal deputy undersecretary of defense for personnel and readiness, who helped lead the investigation, said today that the soldiers' actions were not deliberate attempts to kill innocent civilians, but actions taken to protect themselves in the "desperate opening weeks of defensive combat in the Korean War".

At the same time he launched a defensive combat air patrol (CAP) with his eight search aircraft (one from the heavy cruiser launched 30 minutes late due to technical difficulties).

Among the combat doctrines that Hansell developed himself or approved were use of the defensive combat box formation, detailed mission Standard Operating Procedures, and all aircraft bombing in unison with the lead bomber, each designed to improve bombing accuracy.

Though Bolton said Trump could simply reverse the sanctions if he wanted to, he hoped that the president-elect would focus on increasing "cyber offensive and defensive capabilities" to combat hack attacks from foreign adversaries in the future.

Consequently, host species have evolved multiple defensive mechanisms to combat parasitism.

A 2007 study suggested that Massospondylus may have used its short arms for defense against predators ("defensive swats"), in intraspecies combat, or in feeding, although its arms were too short to reach its mouth.

It's not the defensive listening or conversational combat of marriage.

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