A whole French infantry division and a brigade of cavalry were destroyed as viable fighting formations.

This loose-deuce fighting formation has worked for two generations of Navy pilots, and it's still the best approach in tactical aviation.

The Phalanx was the standard fighting formation of the army.

Without a moment's hesitation Stirling's jeep headed for the runway, the fighting formation behind him.

This was a fighting formation, not a scouting one.

Since ancient Rome the shield wall had been the foremost of defensive fighting formations.

A vast globe of battle-wagons, in perfect fighting formation.

Behind them, the Chinese were settling into the fighting formation that Bien had seen entirely too many times in the last five months.

Khalid deployed his Mobile guard into its fighting formation for battle.

The Imperial Guard is the finest fighting formation in the history of man.