Sentence examples for theaters of combat from inspiring English sources

Still, the use of drones is expanding in many places, and not just in the theaters of combat.

The difficulty for Youngstown created by the 9/11 attacks is that the theater of combat now includes parts of the domestic United States".

They went there as a launching pad to fight inside Afghanistan, but also to plan and train for a spectacular attack outside the theater of combat".

"The majority opinion explicitly said it was not considering the President's powers as Commander-in-Chief in the theater of combat.

Pentagon officials said it appeared that General McKiernan was the first general to be dismissed from command of a theater of combat since Douglas MacArthur during the Korean War.

According to the logic of the proposal, the senior commander in the war zone, regardless of service branch, would be more motivated to maintain discipline across the theater of combat operations.

WASHINGTON — Concerned about possible flaws in criminal proceedings against American troops accused of killing or abusing civilians in a war zone, a Defense Department panel has proposed that investigations and prosecutions of crimes be carried out by a senior commander in the theater of combat and not the branch of the armed services in which the accused serves.

But the Air Force has pressed to allow only rated pilots to operate larger vehicles that can travel across a theater of combat, arguing that even though Predator pilots sit in the safety of control booths back in the United States, the task of maneuvering bomb-laden aircraft through complex airspace requires the seasoned judgment of trained aviators.

While they are technically engaging in "combat" operations, they are not in the theater of combat.

These were caused when 1652 men were removed from the division to provide reinforcements for United States Army units in the European Theater of Combat; this drastically reduced the strength of the division and forced it to extend its training period for a further four months.

Clark calls the disputation a "theater of warfare, combat, trial and joust," and, indeed, early proponents likened it to the contests of athletic champions in ancient Rome.