Sentence examples for combatant countries from inspiring English sources

Destruction, Kramer says, became a deliberate policy in many, perhaps all, of the combatant countries.

It carries the alphabetised names of the 580,000 from all the combatant countries who died in northern France, gathered in a two-year programme of research led by the historian Yves Le Maner.

Opinion polling shows little support in the combatant countries for continuing, and still less for escalating through either bombing non-military targets or the deployment of regular ground forces (the irregulars already being there, we can assume).

(This is 2.5percentt of the 10 million military personnel lost during the war. In addition, there were 9 million civilian deaths and 21 million wounded. Almost an entire generation of young men was lost in the major combatant countries).

Further, there are a consensus that in all the combatant countries the war stimulated a spectacular rate of technical change which spilled over into peaceful uses in the post-war years.

As Luxembourg's pre-war population was only 266,000, the loss of life solely in the service of the French army amounted to almost 1% of the entire Luxembourgish population, relatively greater than the totals for many combatant countries (see: World War I casualties).

No other combatant country produced art medals in this number – in fact the British made exactly one, and that was in response to a competition organised by a numismatist who happened to be a keeper at the British Museum.

India is perhaps the only non-combatant country in Afghanistan that has lost so many civilian lives.

James Traub, reviewing "The Violence of Peace," by Stephen L. Carter, describes the author's assertion that President Obama's continued use of "extraordinary rendition" allows for torture of designated enemy combatants by other countries (Jan . 30.

Add to those task forces the Special Operations Command Forward (SOC FWD) elements, small teams which, according to the military, "shape and coordinate special operations forces security cooperation and engagement in support of theater special operations command, geographic combatant command, and country team goals and objectives".

It is one of three similar teams on the continent -- the others being SOCFWD-Central Africa and SOCFWD-North and West Africa -- which, according to the military, "shape and coordinate special operations forces security cooperation and engagement in support of theater special operations command, geographic combatant command, and country team goals and objectives". .