In the subsequent Persian Gulf War (1990 91), Iraq built an elaborate system of defensive trenches, ditches, and berms, but it was overwhelmed by airpower, innovative tactics, and the demoralization of its frontline troops.
The British lacked the infantry necessary to capitalize on the Italians' demoralization, however, and three weeks elapsed before the 6th Australian Division arrived from Palestine to aid with the British advance.
The U.S. sociologists Kurt Lang and Gladys E. Lang view panic as the end point in a process of demoralization in which behaviour becomes privatized and there is a general retreat from the pursuit of group goals.
The forces of the right, recovering from the demoralization of their initial defeat, began to regain confidence in their own power and legitimacy.
Since he had last been in Bengal, the disintegration and demoralization of the normal Indian government of the province, begun after Plassey, had gathered speed; yet the company had been reluctant to create a new system in its place.
Described by one critic as "a poet of modern disenchantment," Desai ruthlessly illustrated the bitter pain of immigration, the lasting demoralization that colonialism inflicted upon India, and her view that globalization is an affront to the less-developed world.
Petry's The Street (1946) adopted Wright's pitiless assessment of the power of environment in the lives of black urban dwellers, but, unlike Wright, whose female characters generally exemplify demoralization and passivity, Petry created a female protagonist who fights back.
For example, during the 1990s, after having experienced urban decay and demoralization in the previous two decades, Cleveland experienced a great civic revival fueled in part by the success of the Indians baseball team.
By attacking when it did, Iraq took advantage of the apparent disorder and isolation of Iran's new government then at loggerheads with the United States over the seizure of the U.S. embassy in Tehrān by Iranian militants and of the demoralization and dissolution of Iran's regular armed forces.
Politically motivated terrorism, defined as the use of violence against noncombatants for the purpose of demoralization and intimidation, is an extremely old phenomenon.
