Sentence examples for air offensive from inspiring English sources

The US is leading the coalition air offensive against Isis in Iraq and Syria.

And there is a palpable shortage of forces on the ground to exploit the air offensive.

That still leaves the main question: Is the air offensive enough?

For Israel, its main leverage over both Hamas and Egypt now is its air offensive.

Mr. Boehner's resolution notes that Mr. Obama has not obtained Congressional authorization for the air offensive in Libya.

The US air offensive in Europe claimed the lives of 26,000 Eighth Air Force personnel, with 18,000 wounded.

Israel launched a ground and air offensive in Gaza in December, in which some 1,400 Palestinians were killed.

The security of these land and air routes is considered of vital imporlanee to the build up of all air offensive based in China.

The New Forest test is historically important because it heralded an expansion in the crucial strategic air offensive against key infrastructure targets in Nazi Germany.

At the beginning of the Iraq War in 2003, U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld famously referred to the "shock and awe" to be produced by the air offensive.

Not until war plan "Half Moon" (May 1948) did the Joint Chiefs envision an air offensive "designed to exploit the destructive and psychological power of atomic weapons".