land forces
Britishplural noun
Example Sentences
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Here, land forces offer something that can’t be replicated by standoff systems alone: the human dimension of warfare.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 3, 2026
But he said the path to war was not "inexorable" if the UK re-established credible land forces to support its strategy of deterrence to avoid war.
From BBC ● Jul. 23, 2024
The U.S. has to do what it can to try and close the gap, and land forces are part of the equation.”
From Washington Times ● Nov. 9, 2023
General Oleksandr Syrskyi, commander of Ukrainian land forces, said he was meeting officers in the east to speed up Ukraine's advances -- which Zelenskiy and other officials ackowledge have been slower than they wished.
From Reuters ● Aug. 3, 2023
After that, land forces had captured three forts guarding the city of Mobile, which meant that the Confederacy had lost its most essential port on the Gulf of Mexico.
From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt
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