Sentence examples for fighting capability from inspiring English sources

That is no less damning a criticism, reflecting the toll on the alliance's fighting capability of inadequate or poorly conceived defence spending by too many of its members (see table).

Finally, the Taliban assessment that they can take over much of the country contradicts sharply NATO's insistence that the Taliban have been demoralized and their fighting capability seriously degraded by the surge, night raids and the kill or capture tactics of special operations forces.

The net of it, he said, was that the expenditure of more American lives, and more American money, as well as further strains on America's already depleted fighting capability, could end with the country back where it was at the outset, dependent on recalcitrant Iraqi politicians (not the word he used) for the exit from Iraq that Americans so clearly wanted.

Among these deficiencies were increased weight, reduced ammunition supply and rate of fire, and loss of fighting capability if one of the turrets was disabled.

These tests showed that ships protected as well as Agamemnon, such as the later dreadnoughts, would suffer damage to their upper works if struck by such shells, but would not have their steaming or fighting capability seriously impaired even by numerous smaller-caliber hits.

According to the RHP hypothesis, the ownership of territories will be set by the individuals fighting capability and not the order of arrival per se.

Members feel empowered not only by the fighting capabilities of the group but by its ideology, which provides them with tools and zeal to argue back against even the most learned of Muslim clerics, whom Isis labels as distorters of Islam's authentic message.

Some are new, but others return from Melee in some cases updated or refined, either in appearance, fighting capabilities, or both.

The two react to neutralize their bacteria fighting capabilities.

He did not say how many Al Samoud 2 missiles Iraq possessed, but it is believed to be around 100. Destruction of the missiles "would affect our fighting capabilities, but it would not finish them or affect them greatly," he said.

At "dead drops" in suburban Virginia parks, Hanssen, a career counterespionage officer in the F.B.I., left double-wrapped black plastic bags stuffed with secret documents, including a C.I.A. assessment of Soviet nuclear war fighting capabilities.