Sentence examples for offensive operation from inspiring English sources

"It is inherently incapable of offensive operation.

In September a big NATO offensive, Operation Medusa, supposedly cleared out the Taliban.

Quarterback Kerry Collins is presiding over an offensive operation with a small margin for error.

It would in no way support a no-fly zone or any offensive operation.

But, even if willing ones can be lined up, regional forces do not have the capacity to mount an offensive operation without logistical and intelligence support.

Phrases like "intensive diplomatic effort", "nuclear blackmail" and "offensive operation" were bandied about and it wasn't long before, in this alternative reality, Russia detonated a nuclear weapon.

Over Kluge's objections, on 4 August Hitler ordered a counter-offensive (Operation Lüttich) from Vire towards Avranches.

By November 1941, Commonwealth forces had launched a counter-offensive, Operation Crusader, in North Africa, and reclaimed all the gains the Germans and Italians had made.

The attacks followed a Taliban announcement earlier this month of a spring offensive - Operation Al-Fatah or Victory - which would target Nato forces, foreign diplomats, contractors and Afghan government officials.

After the destruction of the remaining Hungarian and Italian forces during the Ostrogozhsk Rossosh Offensive, Operation Star and Operation Gallop were launched to recapture Kharkov and Kursk and to cut off all German forces east of Donetsk.

The NATO doctrine states that "the effective 'offensive' operation in COIN is one that takes from the insurgent what he cannot afford to lose control of the population.