Nato military chief Gen Philip Breedlove said the next day that separatist forces had been making preparations "consistent with the possibility of an offensive".
Then they tried to figure out how what the Nazis said publicly — about, for instance, the possibility of a renewed offensive against Russia — revealed what they felt about, say, invading Russia.
The possibility of a ground offensive in Yemen has grown significantly as Egypt declared its readiness to send troops into the embattled country "if necessary" in the wake of air strikes launched by a Saudi-led coalition.
JERUSALEM — The Israeli security cabinet voted on Wednesday to pursue an Egyptian-brokered cease-fire with Palestinian militant groups in Gaza, but it left open the possibility of a military offensive should the truce talks fail.
The Saudis also mobilized 150,000 troops, Al Arabiya said, raising the possibility of a ground offensive.
However neither raised the possibility of a ground offensive by foreign forces, laying responsibility for halting the IS advance firmly at the feet of local rebel and Kurdish fighters. .
The irony is that our responses have a "thou protest too much" quality and belie the possibility that the authors of offensive statements are wrong.
While the Red Army prepared, the German high commanders influenced by their belief that the Red Army, building up opposite Germany Army Group Center to the north, was incapable of mounting a simultaneous offensive in the south continued to deny the possibility of an impending Soviet offensive.
Johnson & Gen. Westmoreland had seen reports warning of the possibility of a large enemy offensive in early 1968, but neither they nor anyone else in the American intelligence community predicted or foresaw anything approaching the extraordinary size & scope of the Tet offensive.
Segovia, the dog owner who lost his pitbull, ruled out the possibility of an anti-rat offensive gone wrong because the police investigation had discovered that the dead dogs were killed by a mixture of common rat poison and strychnine, a highly toxic pesticide that has been banned in Mexico for a decade.
