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  • The most vivid evidence to date of urban warfare's ascendancy was the Mumbai operation, which ranks as the third most lethal jihadist attack since 9/11.

    Al-Qaeda's new strategy: Less apocalypse, more street fighting Steven Simon 2010

  • According to Patricia O'Connor, deputy public affairs officer of special warfare's SEAL command in San Diego, Webster's name does not appear in the SEAL database.

    Tim Webster 2010

  • From the siege of Vicksburg through to the final retreat to Appomattox, youthful innocence crumbles over and over under the weight of warfare's weapons, trenches, hospitals and prisons.

    Five Best: David W. Blight 2011

  • I suppose the shock was that in contemporary warfare, the way in which warfare's been portrayed, maybe since the Gulf War 1, we begin to think of war as being separate from individual human bodies.

    CNN Transcript Dec 5, 2008 2008

  • The VA is paying, according to Stiglitz and Bilmes, some $2 billion annually in support of 169,000 of those claims, which stem from exposure to modern warfare's inevitable toxins, the most insidious of which is depleted uranium dust (the residue of exploded DU armaments).

    Hole in the Future 2006

  • RICHARD BLYSTONE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (on camera): British Royal Engineers showing us at CNN Kuwait how not to fall prey to warfare's dirtiest trick, mines.

    CNN Transcript Mar 30, 2003 2003

  • Second-generation warfare's winners were those who had the most, or the best-managed, firepower, enabling their forces to win through attrition — an approach mastered by the Prussian army.

    Fourth-generation Warfare 2001

  • Second-generation warfare's winners were those who had the most, or the best-managed, firepower, enabling their forces to win through attrition — an approach mastered by the Prussian army.

    Fourth-generation Warfare 2001

  • And up here, behind me, back that way, the electronic warfare's officers, and up here the pilot and copilot.

    CNN Transcript Oct 16, 2001 2001

  • He to the day of peace is saffron Morn, * And murky Night in furious warfare's bate.

    Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855

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