Sentence examples for an offensive war from inspiring English sources

Why, Russians ask themselves, did the United States, after promising that NATO was strictly a defensive alliance, lead it into an offensive war against Russia's ally, Serbia?

The Russian armed forces are so poorly equipped that they could not wage an offensive war, Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov said, according to the Interfax news agency.

Taking up Trajan's dream, Julian wished to defeat Persia definitively by engaging the empire's forces in an offensive war that would facilitate a national reconciliation around the gods of paganism.

Long before the war, the French high command, committed to an offensive war of movement, had downgraded fortifications, stripped many of armament, put their money on light field artillery and on the dash of troops charging with bayonets bared.

1670 Rajauri, India June 1716 Delhi, India Banda Singh Bahadur, also called Lachman Das, Lachman Dev, or Madho Das (born 1670, Rajauri [India] died June 1716, Delhi), first Sikh military leader to wage an offensive war against the Mughal rulers of India, thereby temporarily extending Sikh territory.

Hunyadi had been an advocate for an offensive war against the Ottoman Empire, whereas the Hungarian nobility and his son promoted a defensive war.

A just offensive war is therefore the meting out of just punishment (DDB 4.5).

Offensive war is an essentially a punitive response to the refusal to redress past wrongful harms.

Still Government of Sri Lanka does not want to release a casualty figure of the deadly offensive war.

"Since the late 1990s, China has systematically done all the things a nation would do if it contemplated having an offensive cyber war capability," Clarke wrote.

In March of 2015, separatist forces launched an offensive and war ensued.