Senior officers have lost colleagues and relatives, softening the army's singular focus on India.
Brijesh Pandey, writing for Tehelka Magazine on Nov. 20, 2010, writes that the "rot runs deeper in the army" than singular cases might suggest.
After her opening-night performance (see her again on Jan . 20and Feb. 3), the gallery now contains much evidence of her singular presence; her uniform of army green coveralls hangs alongside a sprinkling of ice picks driven into the white walls like punctuation marks, then circled for emphasis.
The Kremlin has already sought to portray the Syrian army as the singular partner against terrorism, and the Russian military said after the recapture of Palmyra it would use the city as a stepping stone for broader offensives against Isis strongholds of Raqqa and Deir ez-Zor.
And Mr Jiang himself, again contrary to some predictions, has clung on as head of the organ that controls the Chinese army, a position of singular importance.
"It we could unite them around a singular cause, we could have an army," he said.
In short, the brigadier says, "the US army has developed over time a singular focus on conventional warfare, of a particularly swift and violent kind".
Hastati (singular: Hastatus) were a class of infantry in the armies of the early Roman Republic who originally fought as spearmen, and later as swordsmen.
Velites (singular: veles) were a class of infantry in the Roman army of the mid-Republic.
The term manipular army, an army based on units called maniples (Latin manipulus singular, manipuli plural, from manus, "the hand"), is therefore used to contrast the later legionary army of the Empire that was based around a system of cohort units.
