counteroffensives

The Israelis had succeeded in stopping the Egyptian offensive before it could break through the critical mountain passes in the Sinai, and on October 15, they launched the first of a series of successful counteroffensives against the Egyptians.

The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008

Sixteen months after President Bush ordered the change in strategy, the surge has earned a place among the most important counteroffensives in U.S. military annals.

The Petraeus Effect 2008

The Israelis had succeeded in stopping the Egyptian offensive before it could break through the critical mountain passes in the Sinai, and on October 15, they launched the first of a series of successful counteroffensives against the Egyptians.

The Prize Daniel Yergin 2008

Their job is to take direction from the government, not plan counteroffensives against groups.

REAL Women comment on this summer's events Suzanne 2006

Imagine that, as we crossed the Rhine, retired World War II officers were still harping, in March, 1945, about who was responsible months during Operation Cobra for the accidental B-17 bombing, killing, and wounding of hundreds of American soldiers and the death of Lt. Gen. Leslie McNair; or, in the midst of Matthew Ridgeway's Korean counteroffensives, we were still bickering over MacArthur's disastrous intelligence lapses about Chinese intervention that caused thousands of casualties.

Sinking to new lows - attacking the motives of the war critic Generals Glenn Greenwald 2006

Imagine that, as we crossed the Rhine, retired World War II officers were still harping, in March, 1945, about who was responsible months during Operation Cobra for the accidental B-17 bombing, killing, and wounding of hundreds of American soldiers and the death of Lt. Gen. Leslie McNair; or, in the midst of Matthew Ridgeway's Korean counteroffensives, we were still bickering over MacArthur's disastrous intelligence lapses about Chinese intervention that caused thousands of casualties.

Archive 2006-04-01 Glenn Greenwald 2006

It would be a job even for Harrison Ford, but now that Jack is being played by a younger, prettier cover boy for Wheaties and Bic Microtrack smooth shaves, you just gotta marvel at the way he thwarts the counteroffensives with cell phones, digital cable and the Internet-all in time to get the girl.

Bye-Bye Baltimore 2002

The defense protects strategic regions, gains time, and creates preconditions for mounting counteroffensives.

FM 100-61 Chptr 2 Strategic Operations United States Army 1998

The defense protects strategic regions, gains time, and creates preconditions for mounting counteroffensives.

FM 100-61 Chptr 2 Strategic Operations United States Army 1998

Ludendorff's diminuendo sequence in April 1918 drew so heavily on his armies 'blood and morale that they were incapable of offering prolonged resistance to the Allied counteroffensives which followed.

Barbarossa Clark, Alan 1965