Sentence examples for massed firepower from inspiring English sources

Massed firepower replaced massed manpower.

In the "asymmetrical" conflicts of the future, Mr Gansler predicts, "massed forces will be replaced by massed firepower".

Though the Communists lost in any comparative "body count" of casualties, General Giap was quick to see that the indiscriminate bombing and massed firepower of the Americans caused heavy civilian casualties and alienated many Vietnamese from the government the Americans supported.

This gave the attacking fighters the best chance of avoiding the massed firepower of the bombers' guns.

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.

The previous strategy emphasized denying sanctuaries to insurgents, blocking infiltration routes from Pakistan and trying to fight away from populated areas, where NATO's superior firepower could be massed, in theory, with less risk to civilians.

In contrast, other large militaries are generally making much slower progress, and will continue to field primarily 'industrial age' forces -- mostly mass and firepower oriented, equipped predominantly with late-generation Cold War (vice 21st Century) technologies, and retaining centralized, hierarchical command-and-control structures.

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.