Sentence examples for conventional enemy from inspiring English sources
"Air power can play its part, but this is not a conventional enemy".
This is a conventional enemy in that it has armour, tanks, artillery, it is quite wealthy, it holds ground and it is going to fight.
It is not as if a conventional enemy is about to attack the British Isles, any time soon.Where are the small state purists on the Tory right?
A visibly emotional Barack Obama rejected growing clamour for a US-led ground invasion of Syria on Monday in the most passionate defence yet of his strategy of trying to contain Islamic State extremists rather than treating them as a conventional enemy.
These are good questions in a world which has said goodbye (though many, perhaps most, military leaders are slow to recognise the fact) to the era of Clausewitz, the great 19th century German strategist, who was preoccupied with wars between states and the conventional enemy's "centre of gravity".
A conventional enemy is an enemy within an established system of containment, whereas a real enemy is an enemy that can be made, though perhaps only after conflict, to settle for a territorial division.
A president has the right to order lethal force against conventional enemies during conventional war, or against unconventional enemies in unconventional wars.
Its 15 squabbling baronies, which were set up to deal with conventional enemies, display precious little cohesion (with the Pentagon particularly protective of the agencies it controls).
While some enemies, and al-Qaeda surely, will never be bound by the principle of reciprocity, we should have concern for those Americans captured by more conventional enemies, if not in this war then in the next.
Fighting two conventional enemies may be more difficult if you are also still grappling with the elusive al-Qaeda.Look behind youIn theory, this was recognised, in 2001, in a reworking of the old two-war rule.
As Schmitt would later point out in Theory of the Partisan, the distinction between absolute and contained enmity gives rise to a distinction between absolute, real, and conventional enemies (TP 85 95; see also CP 36 7; Slomp 2009, 112 26).
