Sentence examples for backbone of the army from inspiring English sources
Noncommissioned officers, he says, are the "backbone of the Army," and "it's hard to be hard-nosed if you're writing poetry".
With government soldiers, he consults contacts in small villages, using connections from his youth on the coast among Alawites, the minority sect of Mr. Assad, which constitutes the backbone of the army.
On its Web site, the school records visits to the campus by military officers and boasts of sending "a large batch of graduates to the army" and says "those graduates become the backbone of the army".
Egypt is currently the second largest recipient of US military aid in the world — American-made M1A1 Abrams tanks form the backbone of the army, while F-16 fighter jets and Apache helicopters make its air force one of the best supplied in the region.
Infantrymen are the men who can take out buildings, artillery, aircraft and infantry, they are the backbone of the army.
Cavalry, the backbone of the sultanate army, was thus severely crippled.
In particular, there was no sign of the huge cohort of foot soldiers — the backbone of the Athenian army — who were known to have marched in the parade.
The area has a Darfur-like mix of Arab nomads and non-Arab farmers, many of them belonging to the Dinka tribe, which formed the backbone of the rebel army.
Former rebel soldiers in Congo said that they had seen Rwandan officers plucking off the Rwandan flags from the shoulders of their fatigues after they had arrived and that Rwandan officers served as the backbone of the rebel army.
According to Felgenhauer, the decision is mainly based on the need to send home the one-year conscripts that form the backbone of the Russian army and focus energies on drawing up this year's class.
He said that another aim of the course was to build a corps of noncommissioned officers as the backbone of the new army, which scored its first important battlefield success in May when it retook areas held by Croatian Serb rebels southeast of Zagreb.
