Behind them are a series of support bases where Taliban tanks and artillery can fire on advancing ground forces.
The Israeli army has insisted white phosphorus shells were only used to provide smoke screens for their advancing ground troops.
According to Mashovets, air strikes from Mi-24 helicopters had destroyed checkpoints outside Semyonivka, and Su-25 fighter jets were supporting advancing ground forces.
Although Kachin sources and an independent observer on the front lines said the government had stopped their airstrikes, the Myanmar military continued to pound rebels using rocket-propelled grenades, heavy artillery and advancing ground troops on both Saturday and Sunday.
It might even buy them enough time to rally more volunteers to stand and fight, rather than retreat, in the face of Qaddafi's advancing ground forces — or at least to dig some trenches.
The United States is providing a wide array of behind-the-scenes support to Pakistani forces combating suspected Qaeda fighters near the Afghan border, including spy satellites, electronic-eavesdropping planes and advanced ground sensors.
And while the advancing ground troops are supported by tanks and armored personnel carriers, the defending army can neutralize air and artillery support by "hugging" the advancing troops -- engaging them at close range, which increases their risk of casualties from so-called friendly fire.
New Day for America, the super PAC supporting Mr. Kasich, is pursuing a highly advanced ground game in partnership with a data-analytics firm, Applecart: The firm says it mines data sources like yearbooks and local news reports to decipher which people have personally influential relationships with sought-after voters.
New advanced ground exchangers have been recently proposed, showing high performances also in shallow ground; their shape has not yet been investigated in literature.
In response to a request for comment on how he intends to use his new commercial authority and what steps he has to take to operate it, Sachs responded that unfortunately, although he has been a commercial helicopter pilot and advanced ground instructor for over 30 years, he cannot himself fly the paper plane commercially at this time because he not "current" to fly.
