Sentence examples for concentration of forces from inspiring English sources

Epaminondas' tactical innovations of oblique order and concentration of forces against the enemy's command brought about the Theban Boeotian victory.

Helmand is Afghanistan's largest province and even the current 12,000-13,000 tronps on the ground do not represent a high concentration of forces.

Having gained security in the west, Germany would then shift its troops to the east and destroy the Russian menace with a similar concentration of forces.

"This is not a matter of some sort of concentration of forces, but of the strengthening of border controls of the Russian Federation," Vladimir Putin's spokesperson Dmitry Peskov said on Friday.

That strategy, intended to prevent civilian casualties, set the stage for the street fighting in Nasiriya, where a large concentration of forces loyal to Mr. Hussein had come together.

America is likely to have up to 250,000 troops in the region eventually; but hostilities may start before some of them arrive, partly to avoid creating a huge concentration of forces that might become an easy target.

21, 1916, in Ian Ousby's words "the most massive" concentration of force "yet gathered in a war that had already proved a deadlock of concentrated force".

This was the heyday of the Yorkshire 'rhubarb triangle' - not a place of mysterious disappearances but a concentration of forcing sheds in an area between Wakefield, Morley and Rothwell.

So as to eliminate that wasteful use of manpower, he advocated for a concentration of force against an enemy.

Barring a brief period in 1942 43, when U-boats operated successfully in so-called wolf packs, submarines have always been solo performers, relying for successful attack on concealment and surprise rather than concentration of force.

This was accomplished between Jan . 18and Feb. 8, 1817, partly by a double bluff, which caused the Spanish commander to divide his forces in order to guard all possible routes, and more especially by careful generalship that ensured the maximum concentration of force at the enemy's weakest point, backed by adequate supplies.