Sentence examples for defensive missions from inspiring English sources

The planes fly largely defensive missions, and retaliate when fired upon from the ground.

As events in Bosnia, Rwanda and Somalia proved, the half-hearted defensive missions were a recipe for humanitarian disasters.

In a breakfast meeting with reporters, General Kehler noted that a number of defensive missions that were well understood by other parts of the military might cross the line into offensive actions when applied to the digital domain.

"In tactical defensive missions, they counterattack by interdicting and delaying; they support by guarding the flank of ground troops and defending them, and they harass the enemy by suppressing their cover".

They flew only an average of one sortie per day, including strategic defensive missions.

Barely 15 Hawker Hurricanes, the entire Allied air presence in Greece at the time, participated in a series of defensive missions over Athens.

"It is a purely defensive mission," the Pentagon said in an official statement.

It started with a defensive mission -- to keep Armani out -- but today operates on a charm offensive, spreading quaint village touches throughout the neighborhood.

The idea would be to separate a clearly defensive mission from the offensive side of the NSA, which works to gain access to networks overseas for espionage, and which can be used to enable a military cyber attack on an adversary's computer system.

The defensive mission of this new battalion was changed on 19 20 October to closely support the urban assault, participating as the depleted regiment's missing third battalion.

The U.S. Navy has been training dolphins and sea lions to carry out defensive military missions from their bases in San Diego and elsewhere since the early 1960s.