Sentence examples for capable enemy from inspiring English sources

The NRF aims to operate either on its own or as a force that buys time before reinforcements arrive.The NRF's big live-fire exercises will also, General Breedlove notes, help sharpen techniques for high-intensity "kinetic" warfare against a more conventional but also more capable enemy.

The plan is to install new engines on the 77 B-52s still in the force and equip them with improved, long-range cruise missiles that can penetrate increasingly capable enemy air defenses.

While acknowledging that it is not possible to be 100% effective in guarding against cyber attacks from such an elusive and capable enemy, Game planners no longer have the 'option' of factoring cyber risk into security planning.

The Taliban commander Baitullah Mehsud was among those who, threatened by her liberal secularist principles and her promises to crack down on the militant Islamists, spoke of sending suicide bombers, but Bhutto believed that her most dangerous and capable enemies were in the government.

Moreover, the new U.S. strategy is not anymore based on the ability given to the U.S. military to fight simultaneously against two "capable" enemies but instead that Washington would fight a conflict in one region while simply "denying the objectives of -- or imposing unacceptable costs on -- an opportunistic aggressor in a second region".

Mounting a defence against intercontinental ballistic missiles assumes an enemy capable of building them and loading them with nuclear bombs.

They compensated for this with thick frontal armour and a large long-barreled high-velocity gun that was capable of outranging enemy tanks.

At great psychic and physical cost, Mellas and the rest of Bravo Company, Fifth Marine Division, climb a steep mountain near the intersection of Laos and the DMZ separating North and South Vietnam, then build an outpost capable of withstanding enemy artillery.

The Lockheed Martin system, capable of detecting enemy missiles and aircraft and starting a counterattack at the same time, will be deployed on three destroyers that the ministry has ordered for delivery in 6 to 10 years.

The rapidly unfolding crisis was turning into a nightmare for the authorities, who found themselves dealing with a ruthless and diffuse enemy, capable of making mayhem in multiple locations.

"Moreover, attacks on other British bases-on American naval forces only if the entry of the United States into the war cannot be prevented-are capable of shattering enemy forces in those places". And so we again find the endeavor to prevent the entry of the United States into the war and to attack them only if nothing else should prove possible.