Sentence examples for lethal raiding from inspiring English sources

Anthropologists have long noted that forager war narratives contain accurate descriptions of lethal raiding tactics and practices.

Because war narratives often mention casualties, they show us multiple ways in which lethal raiding affected forager women and, by extension, our female ancestors.

In forager groups, warfare takes the form of lethal raiding -- a brief, surprise attack on a neighboring group by a coalition of males, followed by a hasty retreat to their home territory.

And only two practice lethal raids into neighbors' territory to kill off vulnerable enemies.

"It's just not at all clear to me that these lethal raids are similar sorts of phenomena," he said.

According to a recent book, Top Secret America, by Washington Post reporters Dana Priest and William Arkin, JSOC has launched intelligence operations and lethal raids, not only in countries where the US is fighting openly – Iraq and Afghanistan – but in Pakistan, Somalia, the Philippines, Nigeria and Syria.

On a day of attacks from both sides throughout Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, the most lethal raid came overnight in Jabaliya, a refugee camp in Gaza, one of the most densely populated areas on earth.

Counterterrorism officials considered a drone strike or a lethal raid, a former military official told me, but President Obama and the Justice Department wanted to capture him alive and bring him to the United States to stand trial.

For it was only after the lethal raid by Israeli commandos on a Turkish-led flotilla at the end of May that Egypt decided to open the Rafah crossing each day so as to escape the stigma of its involvement in the sealing of Gaza's borders.

The defense budget has more than doubled, including a Special Operations Command able to launch secret, lethal raids anywhere in the world that has grown from 30,000 elite troops to more than 67,000.

For example, Frederick Kempe believes President Obama "became President" by ordering the lethal raid in Abbottabad, as JFK much earlier did by risking nuclear war over Soviet missiles in Cuba.