The Israelis had succeeded in stopping the Egyptian offensive before it could break through the critical mountain passes in the Sinai, and on October 15, they launched the first of a series of successful counteroffensives against the Egyptians. ❋ Daniel Yergin (2008)
Sixteen months after President Bush ordered the change in strategy, the surge has earned a place among the most important counteroffensives in U.S. military annals. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Their job is to take direction from the government, not plan counteroffensives against groups. ❋ Suzanne (2006)
Imagine that, as we crossed the Rhine, retired World War II officers were still harping, in March, 1945, about who was responsible months during Operation Cobra for the accidental B-17 bombing, killing, and wounding of hundreds of American soldiers and the death of Lt. Gen. Leslie McNair; or, in the midst of Matthew Ridgeway's Korean counteroffensives, we were still bickering over MacArthur's disastrous intelligence lapses about Chinese intervention that caused thousands of casualties. ❋ Glenn Greenwald (2006)
It would be a job even for Harrison Ford, but now that Jack is being played by a younger, prettier cover boy for Wheaties and Bic Microtrack smooth shaves, you just gotta marvel at the way he thwarts the counteroffensives with cell phones, digital cable and the Internet-all in time to get the girl. ❋ Unknown (2002)
The defense protects strategic regions, gains time, and creates preconditions for mounting counteroffensives. ❋ United States Army (1998)
Ludendorff's diminuendo sequence in April 1918 drew so heavily on his armies 'blood and morale that they were incapable of offering prolonged resistance to the Allied counteroffensives which followed. ❋ Clark, Alan (1965)
No, it is not a mistake because, very simply and plainly, this is the accomplishment of an inevitable law in the history of revolutions: phases of advance, phases of struggle, counterrevolutionary offensives, revolutionary counteroffensives. ❋ Unknown (1960)
Our counterattacks and counteroffensives ended with the result you know. ❋ Unknown (1959)
The fighting in the Kuban, the Kerch Peninsula, and the Crimea was as tough as any in the great 1943-44 counteroffensives. ❋ Donald L. Miller (1945)
At the same time, pro-Gadhafi forces have tried to conduct counteroffensives at Brega and in the rebel-held city of Zawiya west of Tripoli -- where bloody street battles were reported over the weekend. ❋ Unknown (2011)
At the same time, pro-Gaddafi forces have conducted counteroffensives to try to retake the towns and oil ports the rebels have captured since they moved out of the rebel-held east. ❋ Unknown (2011)
At the same time, pro-Gadhafi forces have conducted counteroffensives to try to retake the towns and oil ports the rebels have captured since they moved out of the rebel-held east. ❋ Unknown (2011)
At the same time, pro-Gadhafi forces have tried to conduct counteroffensives at Brega and in the rebel-held city of Zawiya west of Tripoli - where bloody street battles were reported over the weekend. ❋ Unknown (2011)
