How to Use warfare in a Sentence

warfare

noun
  • The issues are the rate of change in the nature of warfare and the reasons for it.
    Foreign Affairs, 13 Dec. 2023
  • The rise of drones as the next level of modern warfare.
    TIME, 2 Mar. 2024
  • The romance is stark against a backdrop of brutish warfare.
    Thr Staff, The Hollywood Reporter, 16 Nov. 2023
  • The Emiratis did not need to be sold on the value of online warfare.
    David D. Kirkpatrick, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2023
  • In the skies over Ukraine, a new epoch in air warfare is emerging: drone-on-drone combat.
    Jason Sherman, Scientific American, 3 Apr. 2023
  • Now 1,000 of those officers might head to Haiti to take on gang warfare.
    Cara Anna, BostonGlobe.com, 3 Aug. 2023
  • And John Spencer, the head of urban warfare at West Point, says that no other army has faced such a task.
    CBS News, 25 Feb. 2024
  • For years, experts have warned about the dangers of using AI in warfare.
    David Meyer, Fortune, 4 Apr. 2024
  • The kill may also tell us something about the current state and future of tank warfare.
    David Hambling, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
  • One of the most difficult weapons to defend against in modern warfare is a tank.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 5 Sep. 2023
  • In warfare, there are two types of fire: direct and indirect fire.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 3 Aug. 2023
  • But in the lead-up to Friday’s vote, both companies have been rocked by legal warfare.
    Drew Harwell, Washington Post, 21 Mar. 2024
  • But they aren’t commonly used in warfare – and for good reason.
    Isabelle Chapman, CNN, 13 Oct. 2023
  • How much could the Palantir software achieve in a place like Bakhmut where street warfare has been dominant?
    Bruno Maçães, Time, 10 July 2023
  • Drones are rapidly expanding to fill every warfare’s niche, and military forces in the air, on the ground, and at sea must have a plan to deal with them.
    Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 2 Aug. 2023
  • Their main battle tank, the Merkava, is a tank that is optimized for urban warfare, has the engine in front, which - which not a lot of tanks in the world do.
    CBS News, 15 Oct. 2023
  • My father served as the electronic warfare officer on the lead B-52 from Guam.
    Jeremy Redmon, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Oct. 2023
  • For its part, the U.S. military cut its teeth on modern urban warfare in Iraq.
    Anna Mulrine Grobe, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Oct. 2023
  • The accolades come in spite – or maybe because — of its dark and satirical take on gender roles and class warfare.
    Jenelle Riley, Variety, 27 Feb. 2023
  • Our Body shows that all bodies in a hospital are ensnared in a subtle warfare.
    Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Aug. 2023
  • The escalating violence has raised fears about a return to the bloody warfare of two decades ago that killed thousands in the region.
    Niha Masih, Washington Post, 3 July 2023
  • The researchers uncovered a stack of spears with shafts over 10 feet (3 meters) long at the site, and many experts think that warfare was common in the time period.
    Katie Hunt, CNN, 20 Mar. 2024
  • The Russian Defense Ministry said the attack was thwarted by electronic warfare systems that forced the drones to crash.
    John Bacon, USA TODAY, 24 July 2023
  • And, of course, some tribes before and after the Founding engaged in warfare with the federal government.
    Matt Ford, The New Republic, 23 June 2023
  • All that raises the risk of conflict, though previous recent buildups of U.S. forces in the region haven’t resulted in open warfare.
    Jon Gambrell, Anchorage Daily News, 1 Aug. 2023
  • One of those challenges are the new rules of the road — how best to use commercial technology in warfare, and how to respond when it is targeted.
    Christian Davenport, Washington Post, 8 Mar. 2023
  • One of those challenges are the new rules of the road - how best to use commercial technology in warfare, and how to respond when it is targeted.
    Christian Davenport, Anchorage Daily News, 8 Mar. 2023
  • In the past 19 months, swaths of eastern and southern Ukraine have been consumed by warfare following the Russian invasion.
    WIRED, 14 Oct. 2023
  • Urban warfare is a nightmare for even the best militaries, and the IDF has already lost more than 100 soldiers in its current campaign.
    Daniel Byman, Foreign Affairs, 21 Dec. 2023
  • The United States may need to accept that its doctrine for highly complex air-land warfare is not fully suited to Ukraine.
    Mick Ryan, Foreign Affairs, 30 Aug. 2023

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