Only when Caesar managed to isolate one of the tribes did he risk conventional battle.

Their plan was to surround and corner the Peruvians to force them into a conventional battle.

Planning and coordinating a conventional battle falls to the staffs of military units.

This conventional battle lasted little more than half an hour.

It was fought using mostly guerrilla-warfare tactics; however, several conventional battles also took place.

There really wasn't much in the way of conventional battles.

It was one of the few conventional battles of the war.

Soldiers trained in guerrilla warfare must now fight a conventional battle under tight international scrutiny.

The logistics system was also unable to support the tempo of full-scale conventional battle.

The only rival, the Islamists, lost their last conventional military battle on Monday.