Sentence examples for unprepared for war from inspiring English sources

Mr. Bush's charge that two army divisions were unprepared for war sounds serious, but is not particularly relevant.

Their timeliness and truthfulness have brought comments from Mr. L.M. Garrison, the Secretary of War, who said: "We are absolutely unprepared for war.

Italy had been unprepared for war when Hitler attacked Poland, but if the Italian leader, Benito Mussolini, was to reap any positive advantages from partnership with Hitler it seemed that Italy would have to abandon its nonbelligerent stance before the western democracies had been defeated by Germany singlehanded.

It cuts to the core of one's belief in evil.... Some of the chaplains say the failure of contemporary American society to grasp the true nature of the evil we face means the country is spiritually unprepared for war and its sacrifices".

And the man who got tangled up in a question about whether he had made any mistakes — he could not come up with one in 2004 — recently told ABC News that he was "unprepared for war," and that "the biggest regret of all the presidency has to have been the intelligence failure in Iraq".

With the country unprepared for war, the whole population is enlisted to turn Britain into a war machine.

The second lesson is for the American military, justly proud of its renaissance after the debacle of Vietnam and subsequent triumph in the cold war but grievously unprepared for the wars of this century.

They are returning to a nation unprepared for what war does to the soul.

He brought twenty to attack the Romans at the battle of Heraclea in 280BC and won decisively because the Roman's were unprepared for the war elephants.

The men and women portrayed in "In Conflict," adapted by Douglas C. Wager from Yvonne Latty's 2006 book of interviews, describe themselves as woefully unprepared for the war that awaited them.

But as Mr. Gates returned to Washington on Saturday for what will mostly likely be a lengthy, detailed and often hostile series of Congressional budget hearings this week, opponents of his risk assessment are attacking the spending plan as rendering America unprepared for traditional war.