Initially made out of Winchester rifles, they are now made mostly from everyone's favorite Cold War assault rifle, the AK47.
In 1992, it was the first Gulf War assault in Kuwait by the U.S. In March 2003, it was the second Gulf War invasion of Iraq.
Rape is often used as a tool of war, assault is common practice, impunity is rampant, and (a more lethal, yet subtle form of violence) gender discrimination ensures that girls are less likely to finish school and have access to healthcare.
Exactly how far we've come was demonstrated by the respectful silence with which the late-night Proms audience greeted Tuesday evening's battery of post-war assaults on traditional conceptions of music-making, from György Ligeti's piece for 100 randomly set metronomes to John Cage's notorious 4'33" which, perhaps as a result, had a rather lacklustre effect.
As Ricci put it in an e-mail, "We are now being 'forced' to associate the land walls of Istanbul with conquests, wars, assaults, triumphs — e.g., the 1453 Panorama Museum — but in reality most of the life of the walls was about something else, and the bostan is a testimony of this".
Hillary Clinton explained her culture-war assault on Obama by saying that the "issue" in question is bound to be one "that certainly the Republicans will be raising" (though that hardly justifies inviting them to do so with her imprimatur).
Sales of virtual goods, from FarmVille hay to Mafia Wars assault rifles, accounted for nearly all of Zyngas $1.1 billion in 2011 revenues and 12% of revenue for Zyngas distributor, Facebook.
Bin Laden's assault was war rape, an act intended to inflict long-lasting trauma, "to humiliate the enemy and undermine their morale".
Pretty well every nation-state in the world has come into being through a process involving war and assaults on minorities.
Sherman's march to the sea, Mr O'Connell contends, made the general "one of the originators of what is termed 'modern war' wholesale assaults on civilian populations as an integral part of military strategy".
