Sentence examples for large-scale combat from inspiring English sources

"In 2003 President Bush launched a large-scale combat operation in Iraq.

"It is highly unlikely that the UK would be engaged in large-scale combat operations without the US," he said.

This is the first large-scale combat operation involving multiple objectives in Kandahar Province, where a military offensive was originally expected to begin in June.

Mr. Obama, his aides say, has long tried to balance a willingness to intervene in cases of mass atrocities with a reluctance to be drawn into large-scale combat.

The new approach is to fight four entirely different kinds of war at the same time: traditional large-scale combat; counter-insurgency; defending the US against attack (involving weapons of mass destruction); and "disruptive" warfare.

Chiarelli gave Gates an advance copy of an article he wrote for the journal Military Review called "Learning From Our Modern Wars," which called for a shift in Army doctrine away from large-scale combat against enemies of comparable strength toward "asymmetric warfare," especially counterinsurgency operations.

;Metroid Prime 3: Corruption: Space Pirates shut down and infect Galactic Federation supercomputer network formed by the Aurora Units systems and then engage in large scale combat in an attempt to further spread Phazon.

The author refers to "the supposed obsolescene of large-scale ground combat", reflected in official American policy and defence reviews.

Tanker charter rates depend heavily on oil prices and on political stability in the Middle East; the usual late summer lull in shipments and the end of large-scale ground combat in Iraq have recently brought rates down.

To that end, the President has made clear that as part of the counter-ISIL mission he will not deploy U.S. forces to engage in long-term, large-scale ground combat operations like those our nation conducted in Iraq and Afghanistan.

This current organizational structure is reflective of the posture taken by the United States over the course of the past quarter century that holds that large-scale ground combat in Europe was no longer a primary mission for the American military.