Sentence examples for defending force from inspiring English sources

The announcement suggested the militants have now lost as much as half their defending force.

Defensive towers served as platforms from which a defending force could rain missiles down upon an attacking force.

Price's points were sound; military doctrine of the day called for an attacking army to outnumber an entrenched defending force by at least three to one.

Stonewall Jackson's small Confederate army captured not only the town and all its supplies but also the 10,000-man defending force.

A Kurdish commander told the Guardian by phone that the Isis flags were a ruse to sap morale among the defending force.

The days' fight bore out two additional military axioms: that hard-fought success can leave an army as disorganized as defeat, and that a defending force becomes stronger as its lines contract.

Information about the landing beaches, the defences possessed by the port, and the Vichy French defending forces was limited and vague, although it was believed that the defenders had no weapons capable of penetrating the armour of a Valentine tank.

The defending forces consisted of elements of the German 709th, 243rd, and 91st infantry divisions.

The defending forces consisted of three battalions of the veteran 352nd Infantry Division.

This confusion is all the greater when the defending forces exploit the civilian population.

When a rebel army entered Beijing in 1644, the city's defending forces asked the Manchus for help.