Sentence examples for a conventional force from inspiring English sources

"We are not facing a conventional force".

The Iranian Army is a conventional force whose mission is to protect the country.

As an experiment, it set a "digital" battalion against a conventional force in exercises.

The South Vietnamese army had to be structured as a conventional force, ready for large-scale military operations, even though it was fighting guerrillas.

By the time of the ultimate battle against the French at Dien Bien Phu in May 1954, it was a conventional force of thousands with weapons supplied by China and the USSR.

While Nato commanders may prefer the prospect of facing a conventional force again rather than fighting insurgents in Iraq and Afghanistan, the problem is that Putin in the Ukraine used covert tactics.

Regular serving members were given the opportunity to undertake special forces training provided mainly by the reserve 1st Commando Regiment, or elect to be posted to a conventional forces unit.

In 2001, a Nuclear Posture Review carried out by the George W. Bush Administration argued that the threat of nuclear weapons might be necessary to deter a large-scale biological-weapons attack, or an attack by a massive conventional force.

The Pentagon wants the UK to have both a nuclear force and a strong conventional force.

Eisenhower, understanding the expense of maintaining a huge conventional force, decided to keep his nukes handy as an alternative.

But the situation seems, to me, more World WarII than Cold War — because we're talking about countries building up conventional forces that can move quickly across the continent.Well, you know, we wound up putting a substantial conventional force in Europe early in the Cold War, precisely to deter a Soviet invasion.