Sentence examples for excessive firepower from inspiring English sources

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General McCaffrey was not personally implicated in the epi sode, although Mr. Hersh suggests the general set a tone that encour aged use of excessive firepower.

A number of General McCaffrey's fellow commanders, including Lt. Col. Patrick Lamar, who was the division's operations officer, told Mr. Hersh that excessive firepower was used against a weakened and retreating Iraqi force that did not seriously threaten the Americans.

In Vietnam, initially, U.S. forces used excessive firepower, which alienated civilians; in Afghanistan and Iraq, the U.S. military, forgetting the lessons of Vietnam, did the same thing.

There is reason to believe that, at least in certain units, massive and, in retrospect, excessive firepower was employed, the apparent result of a miscalculation about how, and where, Hamas fighters were likely to engage in combat.

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Poor intelligence and extravagant firepower kill civilians.

Perhaps this vastly excessive use of firepower is sufficient explanation for the appalling birth defects.

"So not excessively excessive.

Great balls of firepower!

That's firepower.

The first is intellectual firepower.

First is firepower delivery itself.

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