Troops and weaponry deployed on land rather than in the air or at sea.
the job for his task force was to support ground forces ashore
in singular a heavily armed ground force
Example sentencesExamples
- They do not need to hit the center of the target to devastate conventionally armed ground forces.
- Flight deck personnel were readying fighter aircraft for a strike at enemy ground forces.
- He is the general in charge of ground forces.
- Recalled to Washington in October 1944, Stilwell became commander of army ground forces.
- The general, who was to command all the invading ground forces, refined the plans in his typically incisive way.
- There was never a plan in the previous administration to use ground forces.
- In a televised address, the president said ground forces would never be used.
- We have not sent massive ground forces in there.
- Aircraft can be told to bomb infrastructure, attack ground forces, or take out ports.
- Organic air defence weapons of ground forces must be integrated into the overall air defence network to minimize the risk of fratricide.