Sentence examples for battlefield loss from inspiring English sources

No similarly thorough accountability system exists for ammunition, which is harder to trace and more liquid than firearms, readily changing hands through corruption, illegal sales, theft, battlefield loss and other forms of diversion.

Norway, which has about 500 troops in Afghanistan, suffered its largest single-day battlefield loss since World War II on Sunday when four of its soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb in the north.

Mao often blamed battlefield losses on rivals who were made to suffer for these defeats.

Mr. Jalil, the leader of the Transitional National Council, acknowledged the battlefield losses at the United Nations.

"The mixed ammo could suggest battlefield losses; it could suggest captured ammo," he said.

The warring factions were heavily armed, bitter from brutality and battlefield losses and accustomed to breaking any agreement they signed.

As Isis ranks have thinned through battlefield losses, desertions and the executions of suspected traitors, its recruitment has become increasingly desperate.

For Isis, the Kuwait attack – and even the suspicion of its involvement in the Tunisian and French episodes – is another propaganda coup despite its battlefield losses in Syria.

When the Afghan National Army stopped disclosing data on battlefield losses, it also started withholding information on the attrition rate and recruitment.

The bombing there has arrested the Afghan government's battlefield losses but so far seems unlikely to alter the course of the war.

Most governments think report ing battlefield losses and certainly battlefield atrocities like Mylai are damaging, but even Vice President Agnew hasn't suggested that these re ports should be suppressed.