4 It drove soldiers "doolally".
Now, it's harder to escape the duress that drove soldiers bogged down in Asia to require pain relief.
When Georgia's president, Mikhail Saakashvili, sent troops into South Ossetia, another breakaway republic, in 2008, Bagapsh was quick to respond, dispatching his own forces to drive Georgian soldiers out of the Kodori Gorge, a disputed valley on their border.
As they drive, these soldiers scan ahead for signs of roadside bombs: disturbed earth, a glint of metal, or just something that seems out of place.
Warriors from numerous tribes joined the uprising in an effort to drive British soldiers and settlers out of the region.
Their fund-raising drives benefit soldiers wounded in combat in Israel, as well as Polish Holocaust survivors who are too frail or destitute to care for themselves.
There was also a convoy of trucks, driven by soldiers, that were inscribed with messages that the relief had been dispatched as a personal gesture by the Dominican President, Leonel Fernández.
In another attack on Friday, the American command said a Humvee driven by soldiers of the 82nd Airborne Division's Second Brigade was hit by a roadside bomb, and possibly small-arms fire, on the outskirts of Baghdad.
On several recent days, a single Taliban mortar tube, firing multiple rounds, had driven the soldiers for cover and had to be countered with mortar shells, artillery or low-flying fighter planes before going silent.
When he was around 11, with Amin just driven out, soldiers climbed over the gate in front of his family's house and carried away the TV, the refrigerator, the furniture, while Rugasira and two of his sisters, who were 7 and 5, huddled on their knees and prayed in a bedroom.
Ours was a path driven by soldiers and truckers and beats and hippies and jitney drivers and families for most of the last century and now, depending on who you talk to, the drive to return to the heartland is either foolhardy or full of sense.
