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  • Thumbnail for Play-action pass
    A play-action pass (also known as a play fake or simply "play-action") is an American football play. The play action starts with what appears to be a...
    3 KB (343 words) - 18:13, 4 April 2023
  • Thumbnail for 2024 Kharkiv offensive
    On 10 May 2024, the Russian Armed Forces began an offensive operation in Ukraine's Kharkiv Oblast, shelling and attempting to breach the defenses of the...
    146 KB (12,548 words) - 19:32, 4 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Screen pass
    only happens if the offensive line misses a block, the quarterback takes too long to throw or the defense overwhelms the offensive line. If the pass is...
    7 KB (1,117 words) - 01:34, 22 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Tet Offensive
    The Tet Offensive was a major escalation and one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War. The Viet Cong (VC) and North Vietnamese People's...
    136 KB (18,309 words) - 10:46, 10 November 2024
  • international system provides great powers with strong incentives to resort to offensive action in order to increase their security and assure their survival. The...
    30 KB (3,965 words) - 06:40, 24 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Battle of Château-Thierry (1918)
    front in France and just barely out of training. The AEF counter-offensive combat action at Château-Thierry was relatively brief starting on July 1, 1918...
    19 KB (2,213 words) - 03:10, 12 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Western Front (World War I)
    for the Training of Divisions for Offensive Action, Instructions for the Training of Platoons for Offensive Action (1917) (repr. ed.). Milton Keynes:...
    85 KB (10,273 words) - 15:33, 13 November 2024
  • free dictionary. In fencing, a riposte (French for "retort") is an offensive action with the intent of hitting one's opponent made by the fencer who has...
    2 KB (283 words) - 10:14, 28 March 2024
  • referee parses what happened into actions, from which it can be determined whether to award a point or not. Offensive actions Attack – An attempt to hit when...
    9 KB (1,286 words) - 22:07, 2 August 2024
  • during the final stages of the offensive action and thus deflects it from the target in the same line as the offensive action was directed. Cf. #Opposition...
    56 KB (8,178 words) - 17:20, 25 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pick and roll
    the league's most common offensive action. There are, however, many ways in which the defense can also counter the offensive screen. The play (in its...
    8 KB (1,078 words) - 21:36, 25 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for George S. Patton
    standing with his superiors. His emphasis on rapid and aggressive offensive action proved effective, and he was regarded highly by his opponents in the...
    158 KB (18,383 words) - 15:05, 17 November 2024
  • a guarantee of security against offensive action by an enemy state. On the other hand, Mearsheimer and other offensive realists argue that anarchy encourages...
    23 KB (3,093 words) - 22:36, 26 July 2024
  • Thumbnail for George S. Patton's speech to the Third Army
    personal fear, and he exhorted them to aggressiveness and constant offensive action. His profanity-laced speaking was viewed as unprofessional by some...
    21 KB (3,413 words) - 01:14, 25 May 2024
  • Department of Defense defines direct action as "short-duration strikes and other small-scale offensive actions conducted as a special operation in hostile...
    2 KB (214 words) - 15:12, 18 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pathfinder Platoon
    main force has landed, the platoon provides tactical intelligence and offensive action roles for the brigade. During the Second World War small groups of...
    25 KB (2,500 words) - 20:45, 6 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for 2023 Ukrainian counteroffensive
    concerted offensive action towards Avdiivka, seeking to encircle the city. Geolocated footage showed that the main efforts of the Russian offensive was the...
    305 KB (24,940 words) - 13:48, 15 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Robert Nivelle
    Battle of Verdun, leading counter-offensives that rolled back the German forces in late 1916. During these actions he and General Charles Mangin were...
    31 KB (3,889 words) - 12:44, 26 October 2024
  • independent action Strategic Defense Politically speaking defensive war is a war which we wage for our independence Strategic Offense The strategic offensive pursues...
    34 KB (4,582 words) - 00:59, 21 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for The best defense is a good offense
    also known as the strategic offensive principle of war. Generally, the idea is that proactivity (a strong offensive action) instead of a passive attitude...
    6 KB (660 words) - 00:50, 5 August 2024
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