Sentences with phrase «largest military exercise»

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During large, multiunit exercises, the US military's snipers can be overshadowed by the men and machines roving the battlefield.

Military experts can discuss «first strike,» «second strike,» and «counter-strike-with bonus»; but beyond these semantic exercises, it is obvious to the careful inquirer that both the U.S. and the USSR are now equipped to eliminate each other as viable societies by exploding a few large hydrogen bombs high in the stratosphere, generating firestorms of meteorological dimensions.

THE military exercise was codenamed Exercise Damisa, a word drawn from the Hausa word for tiger, the largest animal in the cat family.

Environmentalists have criticized holding such large - scale military exercises in sensitive areas such as the Great Barrier Reef, which is under threat from increased commercial shipping, climate change and an invasive starfish infestation, the United Nations says.

Military exercises in September 2014, for example, were the largest since the collapse of the Soviet Union and involved a new military base in the New Siberian Military exercises in September 2014, for example, were the largest since the collapse of the Soviet Union and involved a new military base in the New Siberian military base in the New Siberian Islands.

A disjointed exercise in cosplay action theatrics that evidences the worst instincts of cobbled - together Hollywood overindulgence, «G.I. Joe: Retaliation» by and large ditches the characters of its first big screen iteration, 2009's «G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra,» in favor of a new story of square - jawed elite military defense against terrorism.

Artist Claire Beckett «s MATRIX project Simulating Iraq, on view November 3, 2011 to March 4, 2012, featured a series of large - scale color photographs that investigated American military training sites, where soldiers participated in role - playing exercises to prepare for deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan.