Sentence examples for mass firepower from inspiring English sources

It has also allowed the government to mass firepower when on the offensive or when countering rebel attacks.

The weapons in front them were designed in Communist arms plants for a large Communist conventional force, a mobile launcher-and-rocket system that could quickly mass firepower on a small area.

Foothold and Statement Colonel Spiszer, the regional commander, said in an e-mail message that despite the difficulties, keeping the Taliban focused on the outpost had advantages, because the task force could mass firepower and fight with less risk to civilians than in other places.

Although British artillery was brought forward to counter, it was ineffective against the mass firepower of the Maratha guns and quickly disabled through the weight of shot directed against it.

Massed firepower replaced massed manpower.

"The history of the American military ever since Ulysses S. Grant has been about the use of mass and firepower and 'redundancy' — the application of overwhelming force," said Larry K Smith, a defense strategist who was Counsellor to both Les Aspin and William Perry, the Secretaries of Defense during Bill Clinton's first term.

In October a report prepared for the European Parliament warned that the law had granted American spies "heavy-calibre mass-surveillance firepower" and recommended that cloud-storage providers should be required to warn European users of the risks.The weaker powers granted to European spooks are part of a pattern.

For all of its statements to the contrary, and no matter its effort to mass soldiers and firepower here, Mr. Assad's government has mustered neither the popular support nor the military might to stop the rebels' slow momentum, much less to defeat them.

He added: "We feel we have a lot of firepower.

It may not seem like a lot of firepower.

The Pentagon already has plenty of firepower in the region.