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Forlorn hope: a band of soldiers or other combatants chosen to take the leading part in a military operation, such as an assault on a defended position, where the risk of casualties is high. [3] Frontal assault or frontal attack: an attack toward the front of an enemy force. Garrison: a body of troops holding a particular location on a long ...
Cabbage tactics is a militarily swarming and overwhelming tactic used by the People's Liberation Army Navy to seize control of islands. It is done by surrounding and wrapping the island in successive layers of Chinese naval ships, China Coast Guard ships, and fishing boats to cut off the island from outside support.
Seize or seise may refer to: Seisin, legal possession of property; Seizing, a class of knots used to semi-permanently bind together two ropes; Seize (band), a British electronic band; The jamming of machine parts against each other, usually due to insufficient lubrication; Seize, a fictional town the anime TV series Sound of the Sky
Democratic lawmakers are hoping to win back a majority in the deadlocked Michigan House and regain control of the state government in two special elections on Tuesday. Democrat Mai Xiong is taking ...
It is also said that when the Mahdi appears, the Sufyani will send an army to seize and kill him, but, when the Sufyani and his army reach the desert of Bayda, they would be swallowed up. [ 5 ] However, some mostly Sunni sources claim Hadith describing the Sufyani are unreliable, [ 6 ] [ 7 ] based on a "garbled version" of a legend "fabricated ...
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.
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Communists infiltrated and tried to seize control of labour unions and the Socialists fought back as hard as they could. [ 119 ] In a return to normal relations with nearby states, in 1932 Stalin signed non-aggression treaties with the cordon sanitaire states of Poland, Estonia, Latvia, Finland, and France.