The threat of a conventional invasion of Europe now seems remote.
All magical attacks had ceased, and the regular army was on alert, ready for any conventional invasion.
North Vietnam was forced to try a conventional invasion, which bombing by the United States was able to stop during the 1972 Easter offensive.
Vietnamization was again tested by the Easter Offensive of 1972, a massive conventional invasion of South Vietnam.
In the fifties, the U.S. advisors focused on building a "mirror image" of the U.S. Army, designed to meet and defeat a conventional invasion.
So the Japanese are spending less money on defending against a massive, conventional invasion and are going to spend more money on missile defense and intelligence.
With its growing economic strength and the security guarantee of the United States, the threat of a conventional invasion from the North seemed increasingly remote.
Our ally in South Korea is less concerned with the long-term threat of nuclear bombs than with the short-term possibility of conventional invasion from the North.
Invasion - a conventional Chinese invasion of the United States, infantry warfare.
Iran's highly successful "anti-access" policy of sea and land mines, air defence and sea swarm attack means that a conventional invasion is impossible.