eastern ukraine

…They may be directed without warning because of sudden changes in a country’s government, reoriented diplomatic or military relations with the United States, a sudden hostile threat to US OPERATION EASTERN EXIT On 2 January…

…US amphibious forces threatened to attack from eastern seaward approaches, drawing Iraqi attention and defensive effort in that direction. On 24 February, land forces attacked Iraq and rapidly closed on Iraqi flanks. Under a massive and…

…In the past two decades, MAGTFs ranging in size from MEFs (Saudi Arabia, Desert Shield/Desert Storm; Somalia, Restore Hope) through Marine expeditionary units (MEUs) (Beirut, Lebanon; Grenada, Urgent Fury; Somalia, Eastern Exit and Restore Hope…

…German General Manstein’s Donbas Operation in the Ukraine in February 1943 was a mobile defense. 4-18. A mobile defense requires an AO with considerable depth. Commanders shape their battlefields causing enemy forces to overextend…

…A US Army soldier, assigned to provide security to a provincial reconstruction team in Afghanistan, greets the foreman of a local construction company during an inspection of a greenhouse project in eastern Afghanistan’s Nuristan province.