Word: regrouping
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...Most impressively, The Civil War manages to convey the horror of war in understated words. After the calamity of George Pickett's charge at the Battle of Gettysburg, General Lee asked the shaken commander to regroup his division to repulse a possible counterattack. "General Lee," Pickett replied, "I have no division now." Following one bloody battle, a Massachusetts soldier's diary was discovered with this entry: "June 3, 1864, Cold Harbor, Virginia. I was killed." With American soldiers poised to fight once again, vignettes like these strike the strongest chord...
According to Marin, the team will try to regroup and look towards the future...
...tunnels, whose existence was a well-guarded secret. The underground passageways link security headquarters, Communist Party headquarters, the presidential palace in central Bucharest and other key government buildings. The tunnels made it possible for Securitate members to escape the initial onslaught by soldiers and armed civilians and then regroup to attack the revolutionary forces. Securitate assaults in Bucharest and elsewhere in the country were carried out with arms and ammunition stored in caches secretly assembled outside the force's official camps...