Armoured earth-movers often captured from Iraqi bases plough through government lines, creating spaces through which convoys of armoured trucks laden with explosives can charge.
Mr. Rumsfeld's daylong visit to Kabul and to Mazar-i-Sharif, in northern Afghanistan, where his convoy jousted for space along the dusty roadway with donkey carts and bicycles, was in effect a tour of the reconstruction effort's successes and its challenges.
After Canadian operators approached the front lines to better understand the physical battle space, ISIS forces ambushed their convoy with "effective mortar and machine gun fire".
Most of the hospitals that could have treated Max near his home were destroyed in the quake, but his mother managed to get space for them on a convoy leaving for the neighbouring Dominican Republic.
"The arrival of the convoy is a breakthrough for enhancing humanitarian space and ultimately for delivering the urgent assistance all children in conflict-affected Sa'ada require", says UNICEF Yemen representative Geert Cappelaere.
With his teeth caked in slivers of cola nuts, he said he had tried to board earlier convoys but there had not been enough space.
With the help of an AI co-pilot, making a name and fortune is the goal – in open space there is the chance to ferry cargo, guard massive convoys from pirate attacks or even turn criminal.
To secure prime space in shopping malls, it helps to belong to a holding-company convoy led by a large brand.Perhaps equally important is the big groups' clout with publishers of glossy magazines and "key opinion leaders" whose fashion-packed blogs, videos and Instagram streams reach millions of followers.
Opening with the Japanese company's famous ASIMO robot, it goes on to depict a 'space convoy': a display of its vehicles in the shape of a rocket suggesting that Honda thinks bigger, further, and more ambitiously than any other car manufacturer.
Missiles destroyed the convoy.
