In the wake of the presidential election, the opposition has developed a new means of self-defense: a small tech-savvy corps able to launch rapid-fire counterattacks, posting evidence to YouTube, Twitter and an ever-growing array of popular Russian Web sites.
The rocket fire and counterattack showed the obstacles the talks face in achieving Washington's stated goal of reaching a resolution within nine months.
They will inevitably start shooting their weapons into the air, and dancing and singing, regardless of the possibility that their enemy may be waiting just out of sight, ready to open fire and counterattack.
The Germans promptly reoccupied the château, swept the area to the west with massed machine-gun fire and counterattacked, which pushed the brigade back to the start line.
But a rapid-fire Tiberi counterattack ad accuses her of "waging a negative campaign with special interests calling the shots".
The next day, elements of the 132nd's 2nd Battalion occupied the summit of Hill 27, surprised and killed a Japanese 75 mm artillery crew, and successfully repulsed, with help from heavy artillery fire, six Japanese counterattacks on their positions.
The plan was therefore to occupy the high ground quickly, establish defensive positions, and utilize combined small arms and artillery fire to repel expected counterattacks and inflict as many casualties as possible.
Douglas Frantz (NYT) MIDDLE EAST IRAQ: ATTACK AND COUNTERATTACK -- After antiaircraft missiles were fired at them, United States and British planes hit targets in southern Iraq, American officials said.
The only approach was up a funnel-shaped stretch of open turf that gave them a clear field of fire to repulse any counterattack.
Even before the onslaught, a growing new Cold War threatened to become a hot one when Russia warned that it would shoot down any missiles fired at Syria and counterattack the sites from which they were fired.
Desperate tree-to-tree infantry fighting, deadly French artillery fire, and repeated French cavalry counterattacks caused the Allies to suffer 22,000 killed and wounded to the 12,000 losses suffered by the French.
