Sentence examples for high-level commanders from inspiring English sources

Linking them to mid- or high-level commanders in court is much harder.

Again and again, high-level commanders ordered Lincolns into attacks that officers in the field warned would be suicidal.

This is simply not the case, as the analyses by individuals from high-level commanders to junior officers on the ground in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere, demonstrate.

Jens Meierhenrich, a Rwanda-watcher at the London School of Economics, says that even if high-level commanders did not tell men to rape, they gave tacit approval.

They kidnapped high-level commanders from other rebel groups, and murdered Syrian civilians who had been involved in the earliest mass protests against Assad, calculating that these were the only people brave enough to confront Isis in the future.

Launch on warning (LOW), military strategy that allows high-level commanders to launch a retaliatory nuclear-weapons strike against an opponent as soon as satellites and other warning sensors detect an incoming enemy missile.

Del Ponte recalls how she responded to pressure from the Serbian prime minister Vojislav Kostunica by pledging him "one indictment by the end of the year against a high-level commander".

WASHINGTON — A C.I.A. drone strike on Thursday killed a high-level commander in the Haqqani network, the militant group that has been the largest killer of American troops in Afghanistan, American officials said.

But the impostor had already so convinced officials that he was a high-level commander who spoke for the Taliban movement that Nato flew him to Kabul on a British aircraft.

The multiple missile hits in the same area over several hours, which targeted two vehicles and a compound, suggested that intelligence might have indicated the presence of a high-level commander.

Some mid to high level commanders were killed without Isis releasing any "grand press releases", he added, which could indicate that their deaths were the result of an internal feud.