Sentences with 'combatants'
Example sentences and phrases with the word combatants and other words derived from it.
• « Also, as the American intervention had demonstrated in the First World War, all combatants in the Second World War recognised the key role of industrial production itself. The winner of the war would not only be the side that struck first and hardest, but the side that could keep producing weapons and equipment at the highest rates for the longest time. In that sense, industrial capability was as important as combat capability. »
• « By way of comparison between the war in the west and the war in the east, the battle of Alamein in Egypt, which turned the tide of German forces in that country, involved some 300,000 soldiers, while Stalingrad involved more than two million soldiers and hundreds of thousands of Soviet civilian combatants. »