What is "employing"

Usage examples of "employing".

Yet he was deterred from employing chemical and biological weapons against Israel for fear of the much heavier retaliation Israel could mount with its nuclear arsenal.

Indeed, on many occasions the United States has justified other, military actions against Iraq by employing this same argument.

Why court disaster to secure possible Marginal savings when employing all of the forces at our disposal would cost little extra, secure considerable political and strategic benefit, and bring us as close to certain victory as we are likely to come?

The coalition flew more than a thousand sorties against several of these divisions, employing large numbers of PGMs and B-52 strikes against them, yet they did not break.

As NATO's experience with dug-in Serbian defenders at Mount Pastrik demonstrated, even heavy air strikes employing large numbers of "smart" bombs can fail to soften up disciplined and well-protected defenders enough to allow lightly armed irregulars to win through.

In fact, during the Iran-Iraq War, Baghdad was so disappointed in its antiaircraft gunners that it largely stopped employing the tracking systems on their guns and instead simply used a barrage fire system in which every gun was assigned a sector of the sky.

Then, on April 17, 1988, Iraq launched its first major ground offensive since 1980, employing the Republican Guard as the spearhead of an armored assault on the Iranian positions on al-Faw.

It is also the case, however, that the regime had considerable transportation assets available to it (certainly through 1995), which it chose to preserve for the armed forces and security services, rather than employing them to meet civilian needs.

Alternatively, Iraq still has the precision tools needed to build new EMIS magnets and could do so easily, or it could be employing gas diffusion using the "short-cascade" method, which would make it difficult for Western intelligence agencies to detect.

Even then it is an open question whether Jordan would go along with such a plan because of the threat that Iraq might try to destabilize the Jordanian regime by stirring up its Palestinian population or employing its intelligence personnel in a covert action campaign against the king's government.

During the Gulf War, Saddam did refrain from employing weapons of mass destruction, and this appears to be (the only) unequivocal evidence of his having been deterred.

There are some other problems with employing a covert action approach at this point in time.

The coalition did everything it could to reinforce this--by employing constant strikes, dropping enormous bombs such as the 15,000-pound BLU-82 "daisy cutter," using psychological warfare to heighten the fears of Iraqi troops, and conducting near-continuous raids (especially on key units) to prevent the Iraqis from sleeping or having any respite from the attacks.

By definition, employing the Afghan Approach would mean mounting a weaker military campaign against Iraq this time than we did in 1991 (if only because there would be no large ground attack by U.

In Afghanistan, the United States was afraid that employing large numbers of ground troops would actually make the fighting much worse because it would trigger the traditional Afghan hatred of foreigners and so cause the Afghan people to rally around the Taliban.