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order of battle
noun
- the organization or hierarchy of military forces in preparation for a battle.
- the planned sequence in which military units arrive and are deployed on a battlefield, usually based on estimates of their combat effectiveness.
Example Sentences
With that as a backdrop, Mr. Schanzer said the “real question for Israel is the order of battle.”
So, what’s the order of battle, on the eve of Ukraine’s planned spring counteroffensive to break the impasse and drive back the Russians?
They are a combination of the current order of battle and — perhaps most valuable to Russian military planners — American projections of where the air defenses being rushed into Ukraine could be located next month.
Munition factories are reportedly working triple shifts to meet demands, while the military’s order of battle tanks outstripped production capacity tenfold.
Putin miscalculated what military strategists call “the order of battle” — overestimating his country’s strength and underappreciating Ukrainian and U.S. resolve.
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