In a shift in strategy, the government has preferred to attack towns and neighborhoods from a distance using artillery and air power, preserving its resources and distancing its soldiers from rebel fighters — and from the public, including friends and neighbors, who might encourage defections.
They attack only from a distance with artillery and airstrikes".
However, at that distance the artillery was unable to make a dent on the Ottoman defence.
He summed up his three principal aims as being to prevent a possible landing by sea; to improve the quality of the garrison and its provisioning; and to keep the enemy at a distance with artillery.
But mostly both sides hit civilians, fighting at a distance with heavy artillery.
From 1915 to 1919, in World War I, Bragg served as technical adviser on sound ranging (determining the distance of enemies' artillery from the sound of their guns) in the map section of British army headquarters in France, and he was there in 1915 when the Nobel Prize for Physics was awarded jointly to his father and him for demonstrating the use of X-rays for revealing the structure of crystals.
He envisioned an apocalyptic scene in Seoul, just 65 kilometers, or 40 miles, from the border, within striking distance of North Korean artillery and rockets.
And of course in the distance you could hear artillery rounds landing, but it seemed like there were areas and pockets of calm.
AS a former army field commander, Ariel Sharon puts great stock in holding the physical high ground, controlling the lines of sight and measuring distances in terms of artillery range.
ON April 29 , 1945 Allied captives at Stalag VII A, a prisoner-of-war camp in southeast Germany, heard the rumbling of artillery in the distance.
