land-war

The first is (obviously) never get involved in a land-war in Asia (not my joke), the second is saying that your make believe friend is better than my make believe friend!

Cheeseburger Gothic » Formidable conservative thinkers my arse! 2010

General Lafayette and General Rochambeau lent significant military experience (and forces) to General Washington's land-war efforts, which began to turn the tide in Virginia.

Chris Weigant: The Forgotten Battle Which Won The American Revolution 2010

It is a potential land-war theater, and from sunup to sunset things were quiet.

'Keep The Pressure Up' 2008

The most famous, of couse, is never get involved in a land-war in Asia, But only slightly less well-known is never get in to it with a madman when absolutely nothing is on the line.

Re: Flag Burning Amendment « Whatever 2006

There's the largest collection of land-war gallantry medals awarded in India and her neighboring countries.

Travel Mather, Victoria 2006

There's the largest collection of land-war gallantry medals awarded in India and her neighboring countries.

Travel Mather, Victoria 2006

The year 1880-81, however, was marked for me by three other events of quite a different kind: Monsieur Renan's visit to Oxford, my husband's acceptance of a post on the staff of the Times, and a visit that we paid to the W.E. Forsters in Ireland, in December, 1880, at almost the blackest moment of the Irish land-war.

Writer's Recollections Ward, Mrs Humphry 1918

Worse than this, it was a pamphlet against England's taking part in a land-war on the Continent instead of confining herself to naval operations.

The Art of Letters Robert Lynd 1914

The Irish Conference, succeeding a land-war far more destructive and demoralizing, was brought together in spite of the absence of Home Rule, and the prejudice it had to overcome, [48] is a measure of the fantastically abnormal conditions produced by the denial of self-government.

The Framework of Home Rule Erskine Childers 1896

The year 1880-81, however, was marked for me by three other events of quite a different kind: Monsieur Renan's visit to Oxford, my husband's acceptance of a post on the staff of the _Times_, and a visit that we paid to the W.E. Forsters in Ireland, in December, 1880, at almost the blackest moment of the Irish land-war.

A Writer's Recollections — Volume 1 Humphry Ward 1885