Sentence examples for mechanised force from inspiring English sources

"But in the late 1920s on Salisbury Plain what was to be a three-day exercise was held involving the traditional infantry on foot, horse-drawn artillery and cavalry against a mechanised force including tanks.

At a number of other locations the massed vehicles of mechanised infantry or motor rifle brigades can be seen - not just tanks and infantry combat vehicles but artillery and the large number of supply trucks needed to keep a mechanised force on the move.

In the event this did not bring forth the desired immediate collapse, the bridges at Rotterdam, Dordrecht and Moerdijk would simultaneously be secured to allow a mechanised force to relieve the airborne troops from the south.

The paratroopers were General der Flieger Kurt Student's airborne forces that depended on a quick link up with the mechanised forces.

During a visit to England in 1937 as part of his duties with the Orient Line, he had occasion to observe the British Army on manoeuvres in East Anglia, and was impressed by the pace of modern mechanised forces.

In the 72 hours that followed, Assad's mechanised forces from the Fourth Division and the Republican Guards, the praetorian units entrusted with defending his seat of power, mounted a major push to retake the four areas, but well dug-in rebels held out, sources said.

In the 1920s and much of the 1930s, the General Staff tried to establish a small, mechanised, professional army and formed the Experimental Mechanized Force, but with the lack of any identified threat, its main function reverted to garrison duties around the British Empire.

In the 1920s and much of the 1930s, the General Staff tried to establish a small, mechanised, professional army; one result was the Experimental Mechanized Force.

His 2004 short Tetra Vaal plays out like an ad for a new and terrifying mechanised police force, while 2006's Adicolor Yellow is the Blade Runner-esque tale of a human-like robot who escapes from his creators and goes on the run.

At the same time, the armoured and mechanised assets of the force were organised into the Tactical Group 1 (TG-1), commanded by Lisica.

Eventually the Sheikh's warriors are massacred by French troops: the fact that most of the soldiers who attack the Tuaregs are Senegalese serves to point up one of the main themes of the novel, which is the compromising encounter of traditional societies with the brute forces of mechanised imperialism.