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Once political boundaries and military lines have been breached, pacification of the region is the final, and arguably the most important, goal of the invading force. After the defeat of the regular military, or when one is lacking, continued opposition to an invasion often comes from civilian or paramilitary resistance movements. Complete ...
WASHINGTON – Israel is ramping up its military incursion into the Gaza Strip as part of its goal of eliminating Hamas, driving international alarm over the fate of Palestinian civilians trapped ...
Ukraine’s bold military incursion into Russia has caught President Vladimir Putin off guard and impressed NATO countries, but U.S. officials are concerned that if the operation continues, Kyiv ...
While Ukraine supported these ground incursions, it denied direct involvement. In August 2024, the Ukrainian military launched an offensive into Kursk Oblast and captured numerous settlements. It was the biggest attack into Russia since the war began and the first carried out primarily by Ukrainian regular forces.
After the Iran–Iraq War (the Tanker War phase) resulted in several military incidents in the Persian Gulf, the United States increased U.S. joint military forces operations in the Persian Gulf and adopted a policy of reflagging and escorting Kuwaiti oil tankers through the Persian Gulf to protect them from Iraqi and Iranian attacks.
Meanwhile, Ukraine’s incursion into Russia continued for a sixth day. The largest such attack since the full-scale invasion and unprecedented for its use of Ukrainian military units on Russian soil, it caught Moscow unaware and was an embarrassment to Russian military leaders who have scrambled to contain the breach.
Days after Ukraine began a surprise military incursion into Russia’s Kursk border region, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has broken the government’s silence on it by indirectly acknowledging ...
German Stoßtruppen (stormtroopers) rising from trenches to attack, equipped with satchel-bags of grenades. As far back as the 18th century, Prussian military doctrine stressed maneuver and force concentration to achieve a decisive battle (Vernichtungsgedanke).