Sentence examples for ally units from inspiring English sources

These are moved on a grid map, and an encounter with an enemy unit opens a separate, close-up combat screen in which up to two ally units and two enemy units engage in a short dogfight; the player using menu commands to attack, change altitude or take evasive maneuvers.

The United States, however, preferred to act alone, picking allied units in "coalitions of the willing" to go to war in Afghanistan.

With conventional American and allied units shifting into an advisory role, the elite forces are fast becoming the coalition's sole source of offensive ground troops.

And where combat operations in the past have been carried out unilaterally by allied units, led by allied units or in partnership with Afghan forces, an emphasis on embedded trainers would put Afghans in the lead — but with a cadre of experienced officers and non-commissioned officers working with them from the inside.

FROM your sofa, you can watch the Iraqi conflict unfold, in real time, through the eyes of hundreds of reporters "embedded" in allied units or holed up in Baghdad.

At present, each national command has different priorities and allied units are rotated every six months, compared with 15 for the Americans (to be reduced to 12 months later this year).

The new generation of American mine-resistant, ambush-protected troop carriers, called MRAPs, will be sold, lent or donated to allied units in the most dangerous parts of Afghanistan, according to NATO officials.

It is not clear exactly where the prisoners are being held -- in temporary pens created by the advancing allied units, or in more centralized locations, according to military officials reached late tonight.

Managing communications, and protecting those transmissions, is complicated enough in the civilian world, but the problem is magnified in a combat zone, which is cluttered with sometimes conflicting radio signals from various American and allied units.

But he added that a large proportion of the US and Nato reinforcements would be assigned to training newly recruited Afghan forces, including increased "embedding" of such forces with allied units.

Fighting in conditions almost as severe as the trenches of the first world war, allied units on exposed slopes were under heavy artillery fire which they were convinced was being directed by spotters in the 1,600ft high monastery.