Sentence examples for offensive warfare from inspiring English sources

After all, it is what Washington used to call deterrence before it abandoned that concept in favour of "anticipatory defence" or, more candidly, unilateral offensive warfare.

Urban combat is the most difficult type of offensive warfare, because defensive troops have advantages that can offset an attacker's superior force and technology.

Mangin was a gifted strategist, but he was widely regarded as a spendthrift when it came to the lives of his men, and his commitment to offensive warfare at any cost earned him the nickname "the Butcher".

And plenty of Mao Zedong, whose three-stage doctrine of warfare (guerrilla tactics, stalemate, offensive warfare) he had fully absorbed during his brief exile in China, for communist activity, in the early 1940s.The key to all his victories, as Mao advised, was his people's army.

Pitched battles were avoided if possible, with most offensive warfare in the early Middle Ages taking the form of sieges, and in the later Middle Ages as mounted raids called chevauchées, with lightly armed warriors on swift horses.

This could conflict with Bede's saintly portrayal of Oswald, since an aggressive war could hardly qualify as a just war, perhaps explaining why Bede is silent on the cause of the war he says only that Oswald died "fighting for his fatherland"—as well as his failure to mention other offensive warfare Oswald is presumed to have engaged in between Heavenfield and Maserfield.

The authors use Patrick's story, along with those of the biologists Joshua Lederberg and Matthew Meselson, to sketch the contours of that program from its origins during World War II, through the renunciation of offensive biological warfare by the Nixon administration, to the focus on defense during the last decades of the cold war.

But the president, as commander in chief, does have some authority to conduct offensive information warfare against foreign adversaries.

Yet for each, there are corresponding and growing research efforts as the technologies improve and offensive information warfare expands.

The Pentagon is planning to create a military command to prepare for both defense and offensive computer warfare.

"The United States believes that Cuba has at least a limited offensive biological warfare research and development effort," Mr. Bolton said, taking aim at the Communist government of Fidel Castro.