Sentence examples for level of combat from inspiring English sources

"We felt they weren't expecting this level of combat from us.

Attacks on civilians require weapons, ammunition and the ability to use them, but no great level of combat training.

"Everything I see now is, we will continue to make progress going down to 15 brigades," Lt. Gen. Raymond T. Odierno, the No. 2 commander in Iraq, said Thursday, referring to the level of combat troops now planned for July.

Insurgents killed nine American and NATO soldiers in Afghanistan over the weekend, maintaining a level of combat that made July the deadliest month of the allies' eight-year war in the country, with 75 troops killed.

But it will take "several additional years" for China to achieve a "minimal level of combat capability" with them, says the report.The Pentagon does say, however, that China is steadily closing its technological gap with modern armed forces.

In June, according to military statistics, 15 American troops died in Iraq, 9 from rockets traced to Iran; that was the highest monthly level of combat fatalities in three years.

15 16 Additionally, a difference in the level of combat-related/deployment-related stressors may partly explain this finding.

"Although the coalition can be benevolent, this is the same lethal instrument that removed the previous regime, and we will not hesitate to employ the appropriate levels of combat power," he said in prepared remarks.

The following year saw a discernible pattern of hostilities: lower levels of combat and casualties but unimpeded warfare along the never-defined zones of control of the South Vietnamese government and the communists.

TRAINING AND MAINTENANCE The Army, which has done most of the fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq, says it will be forced to curtail training for 80 percent of its ground forces and that by the end of the year, two-thirds of its brigade combat teams will fall below acceptable levels of combat readiness.

From this case, we hypothesized that application of DC tactic at all levels of combat medical care could save more lives.