Sentence examples for ground conflict from inspiring English sources

His celebrity brought positive attention to an all-volunteer force that at times struggled to meet recruitment numbers over a decade of grinding ground conflict.

General Dempsey already started a study of what he calls "the profession of arms" upon being sworn in just over a year ago, as the armed forces entered a second decade of ground conflict sustained by an all-volunteer force.

This trade-off is a characteristic of many classic confrontations: the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Vietnam War, and so on.In the case of ISIS, at least some elements apparently believe that luring America into a ground conflict will help them achieve their aims.

Such an attack by the United States goes beyond the current program to help arm and support the opposition but stops far short of an air war that would require the destruction of Syria's anti-aircraft capabilities and even farther short of a ground conflict.

The United States went from a posture of imminent preparedness for a war in Europe in 1990, to a situation where major ground conflict in Europe no longer factored in American military planning.

However, the integration of drones will allow wildlife officers to ensure that illegal poaching does not occur, while ensuring that ground conflicts between humans and animals do not result in any harm.

An important assumption underpinning the Stimson approach is that the era of large scale, boots-on-the-ground conflicts is over.

The United States has been at war -- major boots-on-the-ground conflicts and minor interventions, firefights, air strikes, drone assassination campaigns, occupations, special ops raids, proxy conflicts, and covert actions -- nearly nonstop since the Vietnam War began.

Those several weeks of chaos, plus the shocking sight of a president being exiled or imprisoned or killed in combat, plus the crackdowns on communication, plus the break with two centuries of peaceful transfers of power, plus the on-the-ground conflicts between coup supporters and those who oppose it, would all be disastrous for the country, probably even worse than anything a president could do.

As the world becomes more and more interconnected, inequality is increasingly a breeding ground for conflict.

"It obviously sets a fertile ground for conflict of interest and misuse of funds," said Dr. Robert M. Califf, vice chancellor for clinical research at Duke University Medical Center.