shoot-and-scoot

In Kandahar, where the bulk of Canadian troops are stationed, insurgents have resorted to an asymmetrical style of fighting, including carefully orchestrated "shoot-and-scoot" ambushes, and relying on many more - and much bigger - improvised explosive devices, according to Lieutenant Colonel Dave Corbould, the outgoing battle group commander.

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"When you're using tools like IEDs and shoot-and-scoot tactics, it means you don't have the resolve or the ability or the confidence to stay in one place and fight for a piece of ground."

RCR take over from PPCLI at Kandahar 2008

And it's the same on suicide bombers, IEDs, snipers, mortar fire, shoot-and-scoot.

CNN Transcript Oct 18, 2006 2006

But if the Nets play the way they did after a herky-jerky start Wednesday — the same stifling defense and shoot-and-scoot offense that helped them dispatch Milwaukee in the quarterfinals — they will be tough to beat in Boston.

USATODAY.com - Nets take care of business at home 2003

The insurgents often using the basic shoot-and-scoot tactics, getting out of the way as soon as they fire, disappearing into the night, making it very difficult for security forces and Iraqis to find them.

CNN Transcript Oct 7, 2004 2004

Iraqi crews had perfected the art of shoot-and-scoot, moving launchers before the U.S. could find them.

CNN Transcript Jan 15, 2003 2003

That means we launch the missile from a tank and leave the place - this is also called the shoot-and-scoot technique.

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Using standard "shoot-and-scoot" tactics, a Sajjil crew could fire their missile and move to an alternate site for re-loading and new tasking.

In From the Cold 2008