Sentences with phrase «major combat operations»

While estimates on the number of casualties during the invasion in Iraq vary widely, the majority of deaths and injuries have occurred after U.S. President Bush declared the end of «major combat operations» on May 1, 2003.

President George Bush had announced the end of major combat operations in Iraq several months before, and Hale expected the occasional casualty amid routine dental care.

That argument would probably have gotten more public support (or at least indifference) in the America of 2002, where the most recent major combat operations were Grenada, Panama, the Gulf War, and the bombing of Yugoslavia.

Disbanding the Iraqi Army, the only indigenous forces that could have been revitalized and used to help secure Iraq in the aftermath of major combat operations

Not exact matches

The UPDF assisted US army personnel in «how to conduct field operations and how they operate in tactical and combat environments,» according to Major General David R. Hogg, commander of U.S. Army Africa (USARAF).

In response to the directive of Chief of Army Staff, Major General Tukur Yusuf Buratai, Nigerian troops prosecuting the war on terror, have increased the tempo of their offensive as they kill many terrorists during a recent combat operation along Dikwa - Maiduguri Road in Borno State.

The Force Commander, «Operation Whirl Stroke», the Special Joint Security Outfit set up to end herdsmen / militia killings in the North Central States, Major General Mutiu Yekini, said on Friday that troops deployed to the four troubled states of the North Central Zone are combat ready to put an end...

In compliance with the directive of Chief of Army Staff, Major General Tukur Yusuf Buratai, the Nigerian troops have increased the tempo of their offensive as they kill many terrorists during a recent combat operation along Dikwa - Maiduguri Road in Borno State.

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