A bigger force, they say, would be better able to keep up the pace of the attack and would have a combat reserve.

Some senior Army officials and field commanders in Saudi Arabia have expressed reluctance in using combat reserves for fear they might not be battle ready.

Experience told him the commander was running on combat reserves, wit, and the sheer audacity that had always been her best weapon.

In the cold war, the Army kept a huge combat reserve in the National Guard as a hedge against global conflict with the Soviet Union.

Calling up combat reserves, proponents argue, spreads military responsibility over more strata of society, putting lawyers, engineers, accountants and police officers side by side with professional soldiers.

In addition, the Pentagon has called up 12,000 combat reserves.

Three brigades of combat reserves in the National Guard stayed home because the army judged them unready for the gulf war.

During the conflict, African soldiers were not simply local enforcers of colonial hegemony, but also served as a major combat reserve for use in European conflicts.

The combat reserve, including armored infantryman Harry Liebenau, is set in motion in no particular direction.

Of course, the enemy was sure to have kept a lot of his radars off the air completely, as a combat reserve.