With great strategic skill, Cyrus had destroyed Lydia in 546 B. C. E.

With advances in aircraft design and equipment, they were joined by larger multi-engined biplane aircraft on both sides for long range strategic bombing especially by night.

With its strategic position, Constantinople controlled the route between Asia and Europe, as well as the passage from the Mediterranean Sea to the Black Sea.

With most of the strategic reserve sent to the Western Front, an Egyptian Expeditionary Force of two British infantry and one Australian and New Zealand mounted division in Eastern Force, successfully defend the Suez Canal and Romani in 1916 from German and Ottoman incursions.

With the reform of its apartheid government, South Africa no longer needed Comoros as evidence of its ostensible ability to enjoy good relations with a black African state ; the end of the Cold War had also diminished Comoros ' strategic value to Pretoria.

With its position on the Red Sea, Djibouti holds a major strategic importance.

With their strategic right flank secured by the Allied advance, the Partisans prepared and executed a massive general offensive which succeeded in breaking through German lines and forcing a retreat beyond Yugoslav borders.

With its small size and enormous oil wealth, Kuwait occupies a strategic position at the head of the Persian Gulf.

With an effective tactical-operational concept, the German air power theorists needed a strategic doctrine and organisation.

With the dissolution of the Soviet Union in December 1991, North Korea lost a major trading partner and strategic ally.

With the extension of Turkish dominion into the Balkans, the strategic conquest of Constantinople became a crucial objective.

With the end of the Civil War, the competing railroads coming from Missouri took advantage of their initial strategic advantage for a building boom.

With Muslim rulers established around the city under Mohammed of Ghor, it lost its strategic and economic importance to Lucknow and Kanpur.

With Bolivia the focus on relations with Russia is mainly economic, as opposed to political and strategic, as an agreement to invest in Bolivia's natural gas fields shows.

With the beginning of Operation Market Garden in 1944 Veghel was one of the dropping-places for Allied paratroops owing to its strategic location.

With the failure of the 1942 campaign in the east ( Case Blue ), and the buildup of US forces in Africa and Britain, Germany was on the strategic defensive from 1943 onwards.

With a small force and no money to hire new troops, Hamilcar ’ s strategic goal probably was to maintain a stalemate, as he had not the recourses to win the war and nor the authority to peacefully settle it Hamilcar was in command of a mercenary army composed of multiple nationalities and his ability to successfully lead this force demonstrates his skill as field commander.

With the long period of peace that followed, prosperity again took hold of the city, which benefited from her strategic position.

With its strategic location at the conflux of three rivers, Wetumpka quickly became an important center of agricultural trade.

With the arrival of the SR-71, the strategic bombardment mission at Beale was phased down, being replaced by the Strategic Reconnaissance mission.

With the completion of the Erie Canal in 1825, however, the strategic value of Fort Niagara diminished.

With a major cycle of facilities updates completed, the district has adopted a three-year strategic plan focused on 21st century skills for students and teachers to create equitable learning opportunities for its five thousand students.

With the outbreak of the First World War, Cumming's control of strategic intelligence gathering as head of the wartime MI1c was challenged by two rival networks run by general headquarters.

With the ICBM force now critical to the strategic mission, the Air Force became increasingly interested in new ways to keep the missiles safe from such an attack.

With United Nations Security Council Resolution 1244, the bombing campaign ended on June 10, 1999.

With U. S. bombing ended, communist logistical preparations could be accelerated.

With McNamara's support, the president refused to endorse such an unrestricted bombing campaign.

With the formal declaration of war against Japan following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the Committee chose to disband.

With the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the need for bombardiers was evident, soon after an announcement was made by Lieutenant Colonel Isaiah Davies, Commanding Officer of Midland Army Air Field ( MAAF ), that Midland AAF would be used exclusively to train bombardiers in the AT-11 Kansan for eventual assignment to bomber aircraft such as the B-17 Flying Fortress, B-24 Liberator, B-25 Mitchell, B-26 Marauder and B-29 Superfortress.

With hints of cessation of hostilities, bombing raids by U. S. forces were canceled.

With mid-campaign polls suggesting a Liberal government, this prompted the Conservatives to stop the relatively calm campaign they had been running, and go with Allan Gregg's suggestion of " bombing the bridge " that joined anti-FTA voters and the Liberals: Turner's credibility.

With the establishment of the RAF in 1918 the squadron was renumbered No. 206 Squadron, RAF, being used for photo-reconnaissance in support of the British Second Army and for bombing support during the Allies final offensive.

With regard to the bombing he said: " Of course the spectacle and suffering makes us grieve.

With the Ju 88, he insisted it have a dive bombing capability, though it was more suited to, and ideal for, the level bombing Schnellbomber concept.

With the beginning of NATO bombing of Yugoslavia on 24 March 1999, Serbian forces accelerated Operation Horseshoe.

With the in-depth Allied contacts and overall responsibility directly affecting the strategic bombing of industrial regions of Germany the Eighth's planning and intelligence staffs were the natural best choice to assert overall coordinated control with the D-Day pre-invasion needs of the Allies, under General Dwight D. Eisenhower as Supreme Allied Commander.

With its busy commercial docks and the proximity to Cardiff Docks and steelworks it is not surprising that Penarth became a target for Nazi German bombing raids during the Second World War and life in the town during those years is difficult to imagine these days.

With the departure of the 19th Bombardment Group from Albuquerque Army Air Base in the fall of 1941, Major General Arnold moved the military ’ s bombardier school from Louisiana to Albuquerque for two reasons — good weather and the availability of vacant land on which to build bombing ranges.

With the new program came a push for development of a comprehensive organization, with training in navigation, bombing, personnel equipment, chemical warfare, physical training, synthetic training, and use of the gunnery range.

With the outbreak of World War II in 1939, Bernal joined the Ministry of Home Security, where he brought in Solly Zuckerman to carry out the first proper analyses of the effects of enemy bombing and of explosions on animals and people.

With British aid, the Confederacy produces a fission bomb and " nukes " the outskirts of Philadelphia: the U. S. responds by bombing Newport News and Charleston.

With the technology available at the time, the precision bombing of military targets was possible only by daylight ( and it was difficult even then ).

With the Luftwaffe switching to night attacks on England, the badly damaged units at Beauvais were replaced by a series of He 111 and Ju 88A units that carried out anti-shipping missions ( KG 26, KG 77 ); night bombing missions over England ( KG 4, KG 54.

With the advent of bombing, the Observer Badge was also initially authorized to aircraft bombardiers.

With the use of the USAAF for massed daylight bombing raids over occupied Europe during World War II, flak protection against German anti-aircraft fire was developed.

With Liverpool being one of the country's key ports, much of the city was badly damaged by German bombing during the Second World War and William Brown Library and Museum were no exception.