Word: counterattacks
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...country in just two months. Last week they pressed their offensive into Kigali and the southwest, relentlessly shelling Rwandan army positions and closing in on the seat of the interim government in Gitarama, 25 miles southwest of Kigali. Army troops, their morale plummeting, have yet to launch a single counterattack. Despite ongoing cease-fire talks in the capital, the rebels are unlikely to call a halt to the fighting before the government has been routed and the massacres stopped...
...century's turning point, the turning point of the war was D-day. The Normandy landings might have been thrown back if the German command had not been so thoroughly surprised or so unusually slow to counterattack. But once the Allied forces were successfully ashore, Hitler was doomed, caught between armies advancing against him from the west and the Soviet east...
...tried to shut him up, but it was too late. Too late for us too. When I tried to reach our division commander, I found he was in Paris. Hitler's headquarters refused to believe me and decided it was only a dummy raid. We were not permitted to counterattack. I believe to this day that if we had counterattacked by 2 a.m., we could have got to the coast and held the bridges on the Caen canal...
...When we finally got the order to counterattack at 2 p.m., we took lots of casualties from their air force and their naval guns offshore. We remained in that position for six weeks, keeping the enemy contained in the beachhead by attacking every day and every night. Once, near the end, we took the high ground overlooking the beachhead, but the Canadian infantry counterattacked. We were driven away, and that was the end of the operation...
...escalated to a new stage of attack and counterattack at higher and higher frequencies. Men feel insulted. Women detect fresh assaults. The men-are-awful period has been going on for a while. There are signs now that the oh-yeah-well-women-are-pretty-disgusting- too stage is upon us. For men and women, this is mostly a lose-lose combat. But it is entertaining for the crowds in the Colosseum...