Sentences with phrase «enemy armed forces»

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The unit took small - arms fire from a nearby mountain top during a routine patrol, and was able to suppress the enemy with the assistance of local Afghan National Security Forces.

You want to look at numbers... they account for less than 2 % of India's population, but account for 30 % of the armed forces, they win a disporportionate share of gallantry medals for currage under enemy fire.

But there is no record that they ever resorted to force of arms to settle their disputes or that they ever used weapons to defend themselves against external enemies.

Consistent with the Hoover Report's recommendations that the United States had to reconsider «long - standing American concepts of fair play» and «learn to subvert, sabotage and destroy our enemies,» the shadow government built alliances between U.S. government officials, the Mafia, and international drug cartels; assassinated many thousands of civilians in Southeast Asia; carried out or attempted assassination of foreign leaders; trained death squads and secret police forces; worked to shore up unpopular dictators like the Shah of Iran and the Somoza dictatorship in prerevolutionary Nicaragua; worked to destabilize «unfriendly» governments such as Allende in Chile and the Sandinistas in Nicaragua; cooperated with the Colombian drug cartel to plot the assassination of the former U.S. ambassador to Costa Rica, Lewis Tambs, with the intention of justifying a U.S. invasion of Nicaragua by blaming his death on the Sandinistas; contracted with the Reagan administration and the National Security Council to find ways of circumventing a congressional ban prohibiting aid to the contras, including the trading of arms to Iran in exchange for hostages and money for the contras; illegally shipped weapons from the United States to the contras and allowed returning planes to use the same protected flight paths to transport drugs into the United States; 11 targeted the U.S. people for disinformation campaigns; and helped prepare contingency plans for declaring a form of martial law in the United States that would have formally suspended constitutional freedoms.

After decades fighting the «enemy,» the armed forces may be reluctant to let ex-combatants go off and live their own lives.

But it was not just evacuees, the WVS cared for refugees and the victims of enemy bombing and provided a wide variety of welfare services for the armed forces.

Nigerian amphibious army advance towards the enemy during a joint military exercise between Nigerian armed forces, United States, Britain, Netherlands and Spain in Lagos on October 18, 2013.

A cavalryman could brace himself in the saddle and, with a lance positioned under his arm, use the tremendous force of the charging horse to strike a stunned enemy.

The U.S. Army, which supported the study, could use this type of information to better develop strong, cooperative teams in the field, Melamed said, adding that the armed forces could also use the science to seek ways to undermine enemy forces.

If you don't disable the alarms, once the enemy is aware that you're there they'll sound the alarm, reinforcements will soon arrive, and you'll find yourself facing a larger and better armed enemy force.

Take control of your well - armed ship and prepare to repel enemy forces while filling up your combo meter to get the top scores.

Your character has a «Grappler» that allows you to pick up objects and fling them at your enemies, the «Lutadore» who are an invading alien force also armed with Grapplers.

Armed with a gatling gun, a shield that can be used to defend against attacks or bash close - in enemies, and a variety of melee weapons including a spear and a hammer, the Fencer is a force of nature who takes a moment to wind up, and even longer to reload when he's spent.

Also developed by Raven Software, this game tells the story of Logan, his brother Creed, and his old task force, Team X. Most of the game focuses on Wolverine hunting down Creed, who is attempting to kill all members that were a part of Team X. Armed with his adamantium claws, Wolverine can dismember and maul all enemies that come between him and his revenge.

It seemed extremely hypocritical that America was fighting «against an enemy whose master race ideology was echoed at home by the fact of a segregated armed forces.»