Sentence examples for planned an offensive from inspiring English sources

Nevertheless, Kerensky planned an offensive.

The Americans strongly deny that they planned an offensive they are now backing away from.

The Partisan 3rd Corps planned an offensive that involved three parallel columns of divisional strength thrusting north into the zone to engage and destroy German and local allied forces.

Learning of this through Ultra, the Allied ground forces commander, Field Marshal B. L. Montgomery, planned an offensive to capture Caen and to prevent a large redeployment of German forces from the Anglo-Canadian sector to the American front.

Despite the German plans to maintain the stalemate with the French and British, German commanders planned an offensive at the Belgian town of Ypres, which the British had defended in November 1914.

US-led forces are planning an offensive in southern Afghanistan, with Afghan forces expected to assault Maja, a Taliban stronghold in central Helmand.

Since then each year has been bloodier; every spring NATO commanders plan an offensive to stop the Taliban's spring offensive, and every autumn they count more bodies and cry out for reinforcements.

There has been speculation that the military is planning an offensive in North Waziristan, a haven for the Taliban and operatives of Al Qaeda, and some analysts said that the attack could have been meant as a warning against military action.

Since arriving in the Nuba Mountains, I had heard rumors that the S.P.L.A.-North was planning an offensive against Talodi, a government-held town about thirty miles south of the rebel center of Kauda.

Senior US military officers are anonymously protesting in the US media they did not know that Turkey was pretending to be going after Isis when in practice it was planning an offensive against its 18 million-strong Kurdish minority.

General Petraeus and General McChrystal have been reluctant even to call what they plan an offensive, describing it as classic counter-insurgency that relies as heavily on political innovation as on military force.