Sentence examples for war objective from inspiring English sources

While the highly accurate W-88 was designed for a specific cold war objective -- knocking out missile silos -- China's nuclear program focuses on the ability to destroy cities.

The U.S. government refused a request by American Jewish leaders in 1944 to bomb the train tracks into Auschwitz, considering it a distraction from its main war objective of defeating the Nazis.

And for most of the occupation, American military forces -- whose mission quickly turned to cold war objectives rather than the prevention of domestic unrest -- numbered more than 100,000 men.

However, with the US's post-Cold War objectives in the region having changed, Vang represents a historical chapter which the US and its regional allies are keen to see closed.

Jean-Pierre Filiu, professor of Middle East studies at the Paris School of International Affairs, says the bloodbath in Aleppo is a result of America's tacit endorsement of Russian war objectives, "which means liquidating any third way between the Assad regime and the jihadi groups, under the pretence of fighting those groups, whether Isis or Nusra".

Mr Luttrell: "We spend our whole lives defending this country so you tell me because we were over there doing what we were told to do was senseless and they died for nothing?" Cue up a round of sparring over whether Mr Tapper was questioning the sacrifices of soldiers or expressing a reasonable critique of US war objectives.

The EEF had already decided to invade Ottoman territory before the first battle of Gaza, on the basis of Britain's three major war objectives: to maintain maritime supremacy in the Mediterranean, preserve the balance of power in Europe, and protect Egypt, India and the Persian Gulf.

It seems odd that the lack of WMDs is scarcely mentioned by The Economist.Ludo MarcelisRoeselare, BelgiumNo French poodlesSIR – Whatever happened to the pre-war objective analysis in The Economist ("Can Gaullism work today?", March 29th).

President Clinton compared the Russian campaign to Lincoln's efforts to preserve American unity and proclaimed, to widespread criticism, that the war's objective was "to liberate Grozny".

Once the post-second world war policy objective was met that prioritised security of supply triggering lavish government subsidies to farmers, a new phase began: taking the inflationary sting out of food.

He must project a strong, reassuring presence to a nervous nation and to the men and women in uniform, and explain a war's objectives and risks.