Sentence examples for decisive battlefield from inspiring English sources

The city has been divided between rebel-held and government-held neighborhoods for much of the last year, and the violence has been both fierce and grinding, with neither side seemingly able to gain a decisive battlefield advantage.

The war, in which tens of thousands of soldiers are believed to have been killed, ended with a peace deal last June after Ethiopian forces scored a string of decisive battlefield victories.

As yet, the increased air support appears not to have given his forces any decisive battlefield advantage.

Two weeks after Moscow and Washington announced a ceasefire, President Bashar al-Assad and his Russian and Iranian allies appear to have launched a campaign for a decisive battlefield victory that has buried any hope for diplomacy.

PD Smith Battlefield: Decisive Conflicts in History, edited by Richard Holmes Martin Marix Evans (OUP, £12.99) Battles are, as Winston Churchill said, the "punctuation marks in history".

Hence their accustomed advantage vis-à-vis infantrymen was undermined when gunfire became decisive on the battlefield, as it did throughout Eurasia by the beginning of the 18th century.

After being criticised for being too slow and sparing over the past two years, air support is proving decisive on the battlefields of Iraq, where the swath of the country held by Isis has dropped from more than 30% in late 2014 to an estimated 12% now.

Tony Douglas, chief executive officer of the MoD's defence equipment and support organisation, said: "Protector is a highly advanced system which will use world-beating technology to give us a decisive advantage on the battlefield.

They are meant to serve as a reminder to Mr Poroshenko that, lest he think otherwise, his forces cannot achieve a decisive victory on the battlefield alone: he will have to deal with Mr Putin if he wants to pacify the east.

The challenge from ISIS has for now proved too much for the Iraqi force, and they lack things like air power to create the sort of rapid and decisive intervention on the battlefield needed to stem the advance of ISIS.

For most of that time, world powers seemed to accept that neither Assad nor his opponents was likely to be capable of decisive victory on the battlefield.