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A siege (Latin: sedere, lit. 'to sit') [1] is a military blockade of a city, or fortress, with the intent of conquering by attrition, or by well-prepared assault. Siege warfare (also called siegecrafts or poliorcetics) is a form of constant, low-intensity conflict characterized by one party holding a strong, static, defensive position.
In sociology, siege mentality is a shared feeling of victimization and defensiveness—a term derived from the actual experience of military defences of real sieges.It is a collective state of mind in which a group of people believe themselves constantly attacked, oppressed, or isolated in the face of the negative intentions of the rest of the world.
Under Siege is a 1992 action thriller film directed by Andrew Davis from a screenplay by J. F. Lawton. It stars Steven Seagal (who also produced the film), Tommy Lee Jones, Gary Busey, and Erika Eleniak. Seagal plays Casey Ryback, a former Navy SEAL, who must fend off a group of mercenaries after they commandeer the U.S. Navy battleship ...
Now, they say, they are under “siege” by Venezuelan security forces. Five political asylum seekers – all members of the Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina Machado’s team – have ...
Sapping is a term used in siege operations to describe the digging of a covered trench (a "sap" [1]) to approach a besieged place without danger from the enemy's fire. [2] The purpose of the sap is usually to advance a besieging army's position towards an attacked fortification.
Siege, an essay collection, and a newsletter, by the American neo-Nazi James Mason; Siege: Trump Under Fire, a 2019 book by Michael Wolff; The Siege: The Attack on the Taj, a 2013 book by Cathy Scott-Clark and Adrian Levy about the 2008 Mumbai attacks; The Siege: The First Eight Years of an Autistic Child, a 1967 book by Clara Claiborne Park
A year into the conflict, the siege of el-Fasher began. It is the only city still under army control in Darfur, where the RSF has been accused of carrying out ethnic cleansing against non-Arab ...
Blockade running is the practice of delivering cargo (food, for example) to a blockaded area. It has mainly been done by ships (called blockade runners) across ports under naval blockade. Blockade runners were typically the fastest ships available and often lightly armed and armored.