Sentence examples for engagement in combat from inspiring English sources
Several experts on the rules of engagement in combat said that in a raid on a target as dangerous as Bin Laden, the Navy Seals team would be justified to open fire at the slightest commotion when they burst into a room.
Colonel Richard Kemp, former commander of British forces in Afghanistan and a participant in many other interventions, from Northern Ireland through to the Balkans and Iraq, said the Syria vote suggested "a higher threshold for British engagement in combat operations in the short term following our experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan".
As a result of the strict rules of engagement, no NATO forces were engaged in combat during Operation Sky Monitor.
Two days later they engaged in combat against the SAO Krajina Territorial Defence and police forces, marking the first such engagement of the Croatian War of Independence in the region.
It was a rare example of U.S. engagement in direct combat in Afghanistan, where foreign troops are supposed to be confined to an advisory role.
While that remains the nature of some of the wounds of war, technological advances in battlefield medical care and changes in combat engagement have sharply reduced the death rate, compared to previous conflicts--leading to more wounded veterans, with more complex injuries.
But optimism and exaggeration, those are the standard rules of engagement for combat in this industry".
"You'll continue to see an emphasis on special forces because of the unique capabilities they bring in combat, in engagement, in training, in cultural things," he said.
Perhaps more importantly, the Banja Luka incident was also the first combat engagement in the history of NATO.
