What is "defenses"

Usage examples of "defenses".

Last, the enforcement of the no-fly zones prevents Iraq from fully reconstituting its air defenses in southern Iraq, which would make striking an Iraqi ground buildup near Kuwait or Saudi Arabia much easier.

The regular confrontations there between coalition aircraft and Iraqi air defenses do allow the Iraqis to make propaganda hay of them--and their absurdly exaggerated claims do continue to influence Arab populations throughout the Middle East.

Iraq built extensive defensive fortifications to defend those troops, like the defenses it had constructed to stymie the Iranian offensives throughout the Iran-Iraq War.

Back in Kurdistan, the KDP pressed its advantage, taking many PUK towns, only to be stopped at as-Sulaymaniyyah by strong defenses and then evicted from its territory altogether in a counteroffensive that October after the PUK had regrouped and rearmed with weapons from Iran.

They would be big, well-protected facilities with lots of antiaircraft defenses that would take a major effort to destroy.

Iraqi air defenses, which could be more troublesome than during Desert Storm, are roughly similar in composition and capability to Serbian air defenses.

During the Gulf War, Iraqi air defenses in the Kuwaiti Theater were rather meager.

However, the air defenses of central Iraq are far more formidable--so much so that throughout the Gulf War only cruise missiles and F-117 Stealth fighters were used to attack Baghdad and the targets around it.

In addition, the United States could bolster Israeli defenses with the latest version of the Patriot surface-to-air missile, which, though less capable than the Arrow, would add some redundancy to Israeli defenses.

Moreover, the slower the advance, the more time the Iraqis will have to shift their forces, build new defenses, and devise traps and counterattacks for our troops.

Launching entirely from Kuwait would also constrain our ground movements, allowing Saddam to concentrate his troops and defenses against the limited axes of advance from Kuwait into southeastern Iraq.

We could still move the units themselves to those distant locales, but once there, it would be extremely difficult to re-supply them by air from so far away--and with Iraqi air defenses lying along the route to Kurdistan.

It took a bomb-pumped laser to produce a weapon-grade beam of x-rays at such a range, and though independently deployed bomb-pumped lasers were feasible for static defenses, they were far too cumbersome for deep-space use against targets capable of radical ma-neuvers at ten percent of light-speed.

Indeed, no matter which direction we next strike, we will confront permanent defenses and, I fear, pay a high price to break through them.

Thebans to shift their defenses in Lorelei to meet a new threat, spreading their forces thinner.