Enemy engagements here take place predominantly in built-up areas rather than across open ground, but this is still very much desert country – blinding, suffocatingly hot and persistently bewildering to its occupiers.
If the hastati failed to break the enemy during their engagement, they would fall back and let the heavier principes take over.
We defined combat mTBI as occurring (1) during engagement with enemy or (2) associated with an explosion from an enemy device such as mortar/artillery shell, rocket-propelled grenade, improvised explosive device or bomb.
When General Westmoreland looked at enemy dead after an engagement and remarked that the Vietnamese did not have a serious regard for human life, was he correct?
The American plan was to move allied and American fighters by land and by air toward the enemy clusters for direct engagement and to drive them outward toward the blocking force.
This month Petraeus's successor, General James Mattis, told the same committee that OEV "supports all activities associated with degrading the enemy narrative, including web engagement and web-based product distribution capabilities".
Common problems include delayed reporting in situations of heavy engagement with enemy forces, reporting post hoc on incidents that a unit was not directly involved in and for which the timing is not precisely known, or summary reports filed at the end of a day (see also Section 2.2).
During an engagement with "enemy" cruisers during Fleet Problem IX on 16 April 1930, the ship was ruled to have been knocked out by the exercise's umpires.
In the often-quoted Clausewitzean universe, defeating the enemy in a decisive engagement or with a series of "Hammerschlaege" (hammer blows) thus breaking his will to resist will bring victory.
"Never before in history," General MacArthur said, did one army know so much concerning its enemy prior to actual engagement as did the American army during most of the Pacific campaign".
