Sentence examples for prepared positions from inspiring English sources

On Tumbledown and Wireless Ridge the Argentinians put up fierce resistance from prepared positions, but even so British casualties were reported to be "incredibly light".

"Urban warfare is the most difficult battlefield, where Hamas and Islamic Jihad have a relative advantage, with local knowledge and prepared positions," said Jonathan Fighel of Israel's International Institute for Counterterrorism.

Belgian defences were penetrated quickly and before French forces could be moved up to prepared positions, the Belgian army fell back, fighting bravely but hopelessly against repeated air attacks and fast-moving German divisions.

Though armed with the best Iraqi tanks, they would make themselves more vulnerable to air attack if they left their prepared positions and rushed to plug gaps in the defense.

The South African War and the Russo-Japanese War had revealed the futility of frontal infantry or cavalry attacks on prepared positions when unaccompanied by surprise, but few military leaders foresaw that the machine gun and the rapid-firing field gun would force armies into trenches in order to survive.

Hyakutake ordered the units on the hilltops around the Matanikau and in the Gifu to hold in place in their prepared positions.

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That is the reality we're living with….The opportunity to reshape our defense enterprise to be better prepared, positioned and equipped to secure America's interests in the years ahead.

Since the attack, supported by only four horse artillery batteries, was on a prepared position held in superior strength, strong in machine guns, and covered by double the number of guns, including heavy howitzers, it was something of a gamble.

Captain Edson upon encountering a force of bandits entrenched upon both sides of the river, personally led his advance guard against the enemy, engaging in hand-to-hand conflict with them, and by his exhibition of coolness, intrepidity, and dash, so inspired his men that the superior force of bandits were driven from their prepared position, and severe losses inflicted upon them.

The audacious advance made rapid progress until it was halted by well-prepared positions on the outskirts of Manila.