Some Pentagon officials put a positive face on the delay, and said that as long as the Syrian government's forces were dispersed they would be less effective.
"Syria's new military doctrine is starting to resemble the resistance doctrine," Mr. Wazne said, referring to guerrilla tactics in which forces are dispersed and there is no center of gravity that can be easily taken out.
The Song forces were dispersed throughout China, powerless to stop the second Jurchen siege of the city.
Alan Dupont, director of the Centre for International Security Studies at the University of Sydney, believes the US is dispersing its forces in the Asia-Pacific, in particular, away from Japan and the US territory of Guam, which are within range of the new generation of Chinese ballistic missiles.
At the same time, Partisan forces that had been dispersed by Operation Southeast Croatia were threatening the Tuzla-Doboj railway line.
They halted a column of 60 JNA tanks but were dispersed by force the following day.
After being mixed in the ethylene glycol base fluid, CuO solid nanoparticles were dispersed by magnetic force agitation; the suspensions were then homogenized by intensive ultrasonics.
He had only 29 regular army soldiers of the Fijo de Luisiana Colonial Regiment and an inexperienced militia force of 168, most of whom were dispersed in the surrounding countryside.
Sunni mosques were largely silent on the issue Friday, and in the Sunni-dominated Anbar province, perhaps a few hundred gathered to demand the release of detainees, but they were dispersed by security forces for not having permission to gather.
