Meanings of defeat an enemy in English

The United States could not defeat an enemy it could not understand.

How can one defeat an enemy one thinks is a friend?

How to defeat an enemy who gives the creatures exactly what they want?

Is it to defeat an enemy so it will no longer pose a threat?

One may defeat an enemy by inaction.

Good infantry can defeat an enemy greatly superior in numbers, but lacking in training, discipline, leadership, and morale.

As veteran strategist Edward Luttwak commented recently, "You cannot defeat an enemy if you are afraid to name it."

To win in this way would not and does not require simply a military strategy to defeat an enemy that is fighting us.

The rules of warfare, which give nations and their militaries the right to use deadly force to defeat an enemy, also impose guidelines.

We would have no hope of defeating an enemy like Worm without a battle plan.

At Stamfordbridge Harold had defeated an enemy whose tactics were the same as his own.

Webster's dictionary defines victory as an act of defeating an enemy or opponent in a battle, game, or other competition.

Marine Commandant General James Conway addressed the overriding allergy the fighting man has to prolonged missions that go beyond defeating an enemy.

Traditionally, the band that defeats an enemy, or takes a village, is due all the glory and spoils accruing from the victory...'

His soldiers and cavalry had defeated an enemy force that outnumbered them greatly, and had done so with very little loss of Akkadian life.