By 1390, when those troops were placed under the command of the prince of Yan, Ma He had distinguished himself as a junior officer, skilled in war and diplomacy.
Holding territory will be difficult, however, since the al-Qaida-linked militants are skilled in guerrilla war, as was demonstrated after Ethiopia invaded Somalia in late 2006.
Skilled players are "at war with luck".
Logevall is not only skilled at describing the war.
Skilled in directing a war of movement and quick to exploit the advantages of flank attacks, German senior officers were to prove generally more capable than their Allied counterparts at directing the operations of large troop formations.
For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway Robert Jordan, fighting on the Republican side in the Spanish civil war, is skilled with explosives and is given the job of blowing up a bridge during the assault on Segovia.
Tesimond also claimed Fawkes was "a man highly skilled in matters of war", and that it was this mixture of piety and professionalism which endeared him to his fellow conspirators.
Rulers of the Warring States period found it advantageous to employ men skilled in government, diplomacy, and war.
