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a large body of men and women organized for land warfare
the nation's battalions were forced to fight on two fronts simultaneously
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Recent Examples of battalions
Reserve battalions are made up of about 2,300 marines, plus support personnel.
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Elaine McCusker, Foreign Affairs, 13 Dec. 2024
The additional battalions would also provide the United States with more amphibious forces in the Baltics.
—Elaine McCusker, Foreign Affairs, 13 Dec. 2024
These new battalions would help the Marine Corps continue to deter China and North Korea, which would be more tempted to challenge Washington if Moscow wins.
—Elaine McCusker, Foreign Affairs, 13 Dec. 2024
Ukrainian brigades and battalions in the Kurakhove pocket in southern Donetsk Oblast are in a precarious position.
—David Axe, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
In southern Donetsk Oblast in eastern Ukraine, a few battalions of exhausted Ukrainian regulars—each with no more than 400 soldiers—are desperately trying to avoid encirclement by a division of Russian motor-rifle troops.
—David Axe, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
Hurling entire battalions against Ukrainian defenses in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk Oblast on Sunday and Monday, Russian forces advanced a quarter mile through the ruins of the town of Maksymilyanivka—and continued their slow, costly march on the city of Kurakhove, two miles the west.
—David Axe, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
After more than a year in combat, the 2,000-person unit finally rotated most of its battalions off the front line in eastern Ukraine last month.
—David Axe, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024
Five weeks later on September 12, a separate Ukrainian force with several companies or battalions launched a second invasion—breaching the Russia-Ukraine border near Novyi Put, 20 miles west of the main Kursk salient.
—David Axe, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
Elaine McCusker, Foreign Affairs, 13 Dec. 2024
The additional battalions would also provide the United States with more amphibious forces in the Baltics.
—Elaine McCusker, Foreign Affairs, 13 Dec. 2024
These new battalions would help the Marine Corps continue to deter China and North Korea, which would be more tempted to challenge Washington if Moscow wins.
—Elaine McCusker, Foreign Affairs, 13 Dec. 2024
Ukrainian brigades and battalions in the Kurakhove pocket in southern Donetsk Oblast are in a precarious position.
—David Axe, Forbes, 11 Dec. 2024
In southern Donetsk Oblast in eastern Ukraine, a few battalions of exhausted Ukrainian regulars—each with no more than 400 soldiers—are desperately trying to avoid encirclement by a division of Russian motor-rifle troops.
—David Axe, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024
Hurling entire battalions against Ukrainian defenses in eastern Ukraine’s Donetsk Oblast on Sunday and Monday, Russian forces advanced a quarter mile through the ruins of the town of Maksymilyanivka—and continued their slow, costly march on the city of Kurakhove, two miles the west.
—David Axe, Forbes, 21 Oct. 2024
After more than a year in combat, the 2,000-person unit finally rotated most of its battalions off the front line in eastern Ukraine last month.
—David Axe, Forbes, 16 Oct. 2024
Five weeks later on September 12, a separate Ukrainian force with several companies or battalions launched a second invasion—breaching the Russia-Ukraine border near Novyi Put, 20 miles west of the main Kursk salient.
—David Axe, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2024
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