Word: battlefield
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...Karachi, a port city of 14 million on the Pakistani coast, where the Pab mountain range and the Sindh Desert gather into a brick-and dust-hued urban sprawl before tumbling into the Arabian Sea, is the battlefield in which an assassin like M.R. thrives. In Karachi you have ethnic feuds: gangs of Indian migrants versus the Pathans, Baluchis and Sindhis; you have extremists from rival Sunni and Shi'ite sects battling each other (lately, radical Sunnis are gunning down Shi'ite doctors and lawyers at random); and, of course, there are the radical Islamic groups that shelter al-Qaeda...
After mastering the basics of military life, the journalists were deployed alongside combat units, allowing them to report directly from the battlefront, focus attention on individualized stories of combat and dissect the war from the battlefield...
Barnes also recounted lighter incidents from his time in Iraq, including the sense of camaraderie that developed between reporters and soldiers both on and off the battlefield...
...Brooks has acknowledged that some members of the Republican Guard may return as guerrillas to harass U.S. troops. "We don't think all that's going to just disappear," he said, "but there's no way to account for how many made the decision to just walk off the battlefield and never fight again...
...least not formally. Some Pentagon officials, using rough accounts from the field, privately estimate that more than 10,000 Iraqi troops and up to 2,000 civilians have died so far. Approximations are possible after ground engagements, when coalition forces may make a quick battlefield walk-through to scan for the dead. Tallying destroyed vehicles and multiplying by the number of personnel it takes to operate each can also provide a crude estimate...