He had tried to take the Iranian oil fields and lost, tried to take Kuwait and found out that a secondor third-rate military power could not win on a modern conventional battlefield.

Otherwise, its opponents will continue to avoid the conventional battlefield and try to win by bleeding the United States to defeat.

On the conventional battlefield Syria's unprecedented programme of militarization may put pressure on Israel to reassess the respective costs of war and peace.

American commanders have warned their forces about "asymmetric warfare" like suicide bombing attacks that are intended to compensate for the Americans' superiority on the conventional battlefield.

The Lagunari Regiment focused more on yesterday's high intensity, conventional battlefields, such as those expected during the Cold War.

The Lagunari Regiment is versatile enough to be capable in conducting special operations under 'unconventional' methods while engaging on a 'conventional' battlefield.

Mr. Putin has successfully routed mainstream Chechen separatists under the republic's last freely elected president, Aslan Maskhadov, on the conventional battlefield.

While the tactics needed in Control are close to those one would use on a conventional battlefield, Perimeter offers a bizarre and truly unique take on the strategy game.

So if there were an armed conflict, no sane enemy would confront the United States on a conventional or nuclear battlefield: guerrilla warfare and terror weapons were the alternatives.

He is hoping to set up a new Geneva-style convention to govern cyberspace in the same way that a conventional battlefield has rules.