Sentence examples for army posture from inspiring English sources

Come January 2012, the U.S. Army posture will diminish to an as yet undetermined number, likely around 5,000 troops.

He looks unexpectedly well for his age, and is dressed today in a heavy-knit skull-and-crossbones jumper, a pair of army trousers and posture-correcting trainers that ease the strain on his cartilage-damaged knees.

As Hamas evolves from a guerrilla force into a semi-regular army, so its military posture has shifted from offence to defence.

Halleck dispersed his armies and adopted a defensive posture.

Had Washington had more troops, for instance, he might very well have taken a more confrontational approach to the British Army instead of adopting the largely defensive posture he did after Valley Forge, a posture that, in forcing the British to struggle for the hearts and minds of ordinary citizens in the sprawling countryside, drained British resources and helped turn the tide.

There is still a million-strong army on the ground in an attack posture".

He was older, leather-skinned and square-jawed; he wore a baseball cap with the insignia and number of an army airborne division, and had the ramrod-straight posture and straight-spoken demeanor to match.

The broader question is whether Pakistan's army, which fights the Pakistani Taliban yet maintains an ambiguous posture on other militant groups, will be able to exploit the growing leadership rift to weaken it militarily.

"How can they come and raid in our country?" Pakistan's powerful army and intelligence chiefs, meanwhile, have conveyed their message through their posturing.

France's military and political leaders, accustomed to an army that had a long and deeply ingrained conscript tradition, and preferring a strategic posture of defense against invasion, was uninterested.

Washington policymakers have become more receptive to the idea of the Pakistani army serving as an intermediary with the Taliban, a marked departure from the U.S.'s prior posture.