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n. (plural of desertion English)
Usage examples of "desertions".
In postwar interrogations of Iraqi soldiers and officers, being without adequate food and water in the middle of the desert stood out as the first among various reasons that their frontline divisions collapsed in a mass of desertions, defections, and surrenders.
Iraqi divisions by their authorized personnel strength and then factored in rough estimates of desertions to arrive at the total numbers of Iraqi personnel in the theater.
The regular army armored and mechanized divisions suffered fewer desertions than the infantry.
The Republican Guards suffered least from desertions and were closest to their authorized strength when the ground war began.
March 11, 1991, declassified 1998, provides a useful snapshot of desertions from selected Iraqi divisions.
In part because of the decline in spending and in part because of desertions and demoralization, Iraq has also lost its great advantage in size.