Sentence examples for command an operation from inspiring English sources

Ostojić was to command an operation aimed at encircling and destroying Partisan forces in Bosnia, which was to utilise Chetnik units serving as Italian auxiliaries in Herzegovina and Montenegro, as well as other Chetnik units in the Lika region, northern Bosnia and northern Dalmatia.

Both were created as a result of the 1997 SDR and provide a headquarters staff at very high readiness to command an expeditionary operation at operational level.

Hayman was in overall command of an operation that included tapping Dizaei's phones, something the investigatory powers tribunal declared unlawful.

REPORTER AT LARGE about the Persian Gulf Command, a military operation, whose entire task was to deliver American supplies to the Russians as rapidly as possible.

By Joel Sayre The New Yorker, January 13 , 1945P. 26 REPORTER AT LARGE about the Persian Gulf Command, a military operation, whose entire task was to deliver American supplies to the Russians as rapidly as possible.

Tall's voice-over reveals that he has been passed over for promotion and this battle may be his last chance to command a victorious operation.

In August Marlborough himself left for Ireland engaged upon his first independent command – a land/sea operation upon southern ports of Cork and Kinsale.

Finding normal access to the city blocked, he managed to board a boat in Sandy Hook, N.J., took charge of his command and organized an operation reminiscent of the cross-Channel evacuation of 300,000 Allied troops from Dunkirk in 1940.

Activists said the government of Bashar al-Assad also bombed one of two water distribution plants in the opening move of what the military command described as an operation to reclaim the opposition-controlled eastern districts of the city.

In March, troops from the 49th Armored Division of the Texas Guard took over the American peacekeeping mission in Bosnia, the first time since the Korean War that a guard division commanded an overseas operation.

Eye in the Sky (2015) featured Mirren as a British colonel who faces a moral dilemma while remotely commanding a military operation in Kenya intended to apprehend a terrorist.