fire-fights

The stage short-term fire-fights with NATO troops in order to harras and delegitimise their presence and mission in the country.

Archive 2010-01-01 Edstock 2010

The stage short-term fire-fights with NATO troops in order to harras and delegitimise their presence and mission in the country.

They might as well praise the Taliban Boris 2010

As a result, they are most often at the sharp end in the vicious fire-fights that develop when insurgents ambush the bomb hunters.

The wrong kind of war Richard 2006

Providing the existing economic infrastructure with more resources might be a simple, effective way of really improving the lot of rural Afghans that does not involve fire-fights in their paddocks and villages.

Archive 2008-02-01 Dave 2008

He said as a soldier that our troops in Afstan would much rather engage in fire-fights--in which they kill many more of the enemy than they kill us--than travel in vehicles waiting for an IED to go off and perhaps kill them.

Archive 2006-03-01 2006

How many incidents of fire-fights/attacks are there in Yugoslavia per day, how many in Iraq?

Catching Up on Incompetent War Administration « Whatever 2006

Some alleys were peaceful, while in others there were brief, furious fire-fights as desperate Frenchmen were cornered.

Sharpe's Rifles Cornwell, Bernard 1988

_Machine-gun Platoons_ are required for prolonged fire-fights and local counter-attacks, during which sudden bursts of machine and Lewis-gun fire will do the greatest execution.

Lectures on Land Warfare; A tactical Manual for the Use of Infantry Officers An Examination of the Principles Which Underlie the Art of Warfare, with Illustrations of the Principles by Examples Taken from Military History, from the Battle of Thermopylae, B.C. 480, to the Battle of the Sambre, November 1-11, 1918 Anonymous

Players will engage in cover-based fire-fights, melee combat and driving sections on land and sea, along with getting to use Bond's high tech gadgets.

All - Digital Spy - Entertainment and Media News 2010

We might have learned about Blair's talks with the IRA, SAS ambushes in Armagh, British intelligence penetration of the Dublin government, claims of torture of suspects, fire-fights in which the wrong people got killed, paramilitary links with politicians - the dirty underclothes of a dirty conflict.

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