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...excited today because more people were getting into the attack,” Leone said. “Before, only the people who had the ball were doing good things and the rest of the team wasn’t. But today we were getting it done...
...better in the second half, outletting and working the ball up through our midfield,” Caples said. “We didn’t have a lot inside our attack one-third. We need to work at a more sustained attack and creating more high percentage goal scoring opportunities...
...World War II proved less of a platform for antiwar activists; the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor coupled with the global effort to halt fascism and a determination to pull the country out of the Great Depression combined to limit antiwar sentiment. Vietnam, however, was an entirely different ballgame. Unpopular from the start, the war incited the most vocal and widespread antiwar sentiment in U.S. history. Draft-dodging, protests and the burning of draft cards and American flags abounded in a protest movement that had something for everyone. Young adults from middle-class backgrounds - hippies - allied with working-class opponents...
...supply nearly 100,000 troops in Afghanistan, the U.S. and its Western allies rely on road convoys with dozens of trucks to carry in everything from jet fuel to frozen pizza. But increasingly these convoys are coming under savage attack by the Taliban. And experts say that if the ambushes get worse, it could impair NATO's efforts to keep a supply lifeline running to its troops in forts and camps scattered across the mountainous country...
...previous years, the Taliban would scale down their attacks because of winter blizzards, but a NATO logistics officer says the militants now have the capacity to launch ambushes on supply routes year round. The Taliban are also widening the scope of their attacks so that convoys rumbling across two-thirds of the country are now prey to attack, usually by roadside bombs or a well-laid ambush in which rocket-propelled grenades are fired at the lead vehicle, forcing the convoy to a deadly standstill...