land-power

I am also responsible for providing ready and relevant land-power capabilities to the combatant commanders and the joint team.

CNN Transcript May 7, 2004 2004

He used to listen rapt while I described her marvellous awakening in the last generation, under the strength and wisdom of her rulers; her intense patriotic ardour; her seething industrial activity, and, most potent of all, the forces that are moulding modern Europe, her dream of a colonial empire, entailing her transformation from a land-power to a sea-power.

The Riddle of the Sands Childers, Erskine, 1870-1922 1955

Charles saw that if he could only add England to his vast possessions he could command the world; for then he would have not only the greatest land-power but the greatest sea-power too.

Flag and Fleet How the British Navy Won the Freedom of the Seas William Charles Henry Wood 1905

Lorraine, and made herself the strongest land-power in the world.

Flag and Fleet How the British Navy Won the Freedom of the Seas William Charles Henry Wood 1905

Sea-power held Maryland in its relentless grip and did more than land-power to keep her in the Union.

Captains of the Civil War; a chronicle of the blue and the gray William Charles Henry Wood 1905

In the end the best thing happened; for it was best to have both kingdoms completed in the way laid out by Nature: France, a great land-power, with a race of soldiers, having all that is France now; and

Flag and Fleet How the British Navy Won the Freedom of the Seas William Charles Henry Wood 1905

Napoleon, however, had no choice but to use his own land-power, no matter what the cost might be, against British sea-power.

Flag and Fleet How the British Navy Won the Freedom of the Seas William Charles Henry Wood 1905

He had to supply his army by land, while the Allies supplied theirs by sea; and though theirs fought thousands of miles from their bases at home, while his fought in Russia itself, within a few hundred miles of its bases inland, yet their sea-power wore out his land-power in less than two years.

Flag and Fleet How the British Navy Won the Freedom of the Seas William Charles Henry Wood 1905

Imagine also what he thought of the difference between Napoleon's land-power, which made him a prisoner at home, and British sea-power, which only obliged him to obey certain laws of trade abroad!

Flag and Fleet How the British Navy Won the Freedom of the Seas William Charles Henry Wood 1905

Napoleon, like the Germans of today, hoped to make land-power beat sea-power in the East by stirring up rebellion against the British rule in India and making Egypt his bridge between Europe and Asia.

Flag and Fleet How the British Navy Won the Freedom of the Seas William Charles Henry Wood 1905