Commit ourselves to the total destruction of Mr. Milosevic's armed forces, no matter how long it takes.

They have prevented massive destruction of your armed forces and the deaths of most of your military personnel.

Any conventional battle plan would inevitably have resulted in the destruction of my own forces in return for light enemy casualties.

If we can best them, then you will see such destruction of their forces as you can't imagine.

It soon ended in the complete destruction of the Pretender's forces, one half of whom were killed; among them, the Earl himself.

"The ultimate military purpose of war is the destruction of the enemy's armed forces and will to fight."

After the destruction of their forces at Kosovo, the Ottomans were forced to send inexperienced reserve armies to Europe.

The fighting lasted through May 1925, with the defeat, but not destruction, of Chen's forces.

The foot were now besieged in Devizes but witnessed the destruction of Waller's forces at Roundway Down.

At one level the destruction of Iraq's armed forces, as well as nuclear, chemical and biological potential, should leave them more relaxed than ever.