Sentence examples for area of combat from inspiring English sources

One military planner compared the area of combat to a pepperoni pizza in a box: the pepperonis were groups of enemy fighters.

In March, during the largest ground operation of the war, the American military prevented its Afghan allies from bringing members of news organizations into the area of combat.

Admiral McRaven dismissed assertions that the most highly trained Navy and Army commando teams should be reserved solely for the most high-profile missions; he said they were regularly assigned to support commanders of units in a local area of combat if that contributed to the overall mission.

I would like to address one of the items the Commission has been specifically tasked by Congress to examine - namely, whether providing security in an area of combat operations is inherently governmental.

The operating theory behind such a question appears to be that any use of force, even in defense of persons or property, that occurs in an area of combat operations presents a risk of being indistinguishable from offensive operations conducted by the U.S. military.

To follow click on Darius' ship and he will take you to the first area of combat you will take.

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It accused Israel of failing to meet obligations to care for the wounded in areas of combat.

The area around Kunduz, where about 100 journalists are tracking the fierce fighting, is considered safer because the dangerous areas of combat are self-evident, and therefore avoidable.

Somehow we must combine a principled engagement with the Muslim world with a principled withdrawal from areas of combat.

The unit emerged from these repeated reorganizations in very poor state; training was inadequate, with the unit repeatedly failing battalion competence tests, and some areas of combat training notably indirect fire were avoided altogether.