It was enough to remind me that he was my son, and not just a frustrating series of zero-sum firefights.
As General Tommy Franks, the war's overall commander, puts it, "some terrific firefights" have erupted behind the point of the spear, some in places that were thought to have been subdued.
Army defectors seized control of the town for a few hours.Reports of firefights are no longer rare in what was once a peaceful capital.
Shells screamed over the walkers, and firefights broke out round them.
And last week's article on cyber-crime, "Firewalls and firefights", misspelled the name of CloudFlare, a technology start-up.
The country faces a possible challenge from jihadists who may have been responsible for several firefights around its porous southern border.
Settlers in Hebron, together with other Jewish militants, have been attacking Arab homes and shops in the city in an effort to provoke more firefights with the Palestinians, and thus force the army's hand.For their part, the Palestinians have sharply increased the number of bomb attempts inside Israel.
By late morning they were out again in the lush, lethal fields of Zhari, a district due west of Kandahar city in southern Afghanistan where hidden bombs and firefights are a part of daily life.
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But on the ground, his officials say, the share of firefights involving close air support has already fallen from 35% to 17% in the past month.
That suggests the Taliban are eschewing firefights, when body armour often saves soldiers' lives, in favour of lethal terrorist attacks.A shift to "asymmetric" warfare would be understandable.
