Sentence examples for military collapse from inspiring English sources

In the chaos following the British military collapse, some officers enriched themselves through betrayal.

As the Islamist forces took control, Iraqi Army soldiers fled, setting off a military collapse through the region.

After 45 years as a top-secret naval base, Kaliningrad was rendered useless by the Soviets' military collapse.

The stunning events of recent days suggest that the Taliban are closer to military collapse than generally recognized.

David Butter, the author of Picking up the Pieces, said the economic failure could lead to military collapse within the Syrian army.

Iran and then Russia rescued the Assad regime from military collapse, although in a way it has collapsed already, subcontracting its powers to foreign states and local warlords.

Less than three years later, much of Iraq's military collapsed in the face of an Islamic State onslaught.

But demand for planes, both civilian and military, collapsed along with the Soviet Union, and the market has remained depressed.

Privately, many officials cautioned that it could still be several days or weeks before Libya's military collapses or Colonel Qaddafi and his inner circle abandon the fight.

We found, for example, that 22percentt of highly personalized dictatorships (those regimes lacking strong parties or a military) collapsed when the leader died — compared to 6percentt of institutionalized dictatorships.

Unless the military collapses in defeat, as it did in Greece in 1974 and in Argentina after the Falklands War, it must be persuaded to at least tolerate a new democratic order.