Along the road, night and day, a stream of ambulances came with their freight: the gravely hurt, the paralyzed, the amputees, the head-trauma cases, and the other wreckage from what had turned out to be a mammoth land battle.
And at one point, we looked at a land-air battle construct where the Army and Air Force attempted to compare their respective capabilities and improve on those, and achieve synergies over land that would cause us to make an evolutionary step from -- or within the joint warfare concept.
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The vehicle had become bogged down, and a battle-tested Land Cruiser was attempting to pull it free.
If it was just the island's freedom at stake, the U.S. public might not want to send their fighting men and women to do battle for a faraway land which many Americans often confuse with Thailand.
Last year's clearance of 49 illegal pitches at Dale Farm was the culmination of a 10-year battle between travellers, who bought a former scrapyard on green belt land, and the council.
The clearance of 49 illegal pitches at Dale Farm in 2011 was the culmination of a 10-year battle between travellers, who bought a former scrap yard on green belt land, and the council.
BBC: Dale Farm eviction: Council to lease traveller site land
At times, it is as if a primordial battle is raging between sea and land.
The Obama administration will then release a broad range of proposals as the first bombardment in a political battle to make them the law of the land.
At least ten people died there in a battle between two ethnic groups involved in a long-standing land dispute.
Tensions over the battle of the ports have been running high - exacerbated by a land reclamation project just off the coast of Singapore which Malaysia says is affecting the flow and depth of the shipping channel.
They view the intervention as a return to the official paternalism that prevailed before the aborigines won their long battle for land rights 35 years ago.
That plot of land, which now houses 167 modest cottages, is at the center of a legal battle that has roiled the usually quiet, historic town of Ipswich.
Mr Li admits that he has to "dance on the edge of a knife" when writing about local officials, in case his efforts to battle corruption land him in hot water.
Photographer Neil A White's Lost Villages project documents this constant battle between the North Sea and the land in this part of the British Isles, one that endures the highest rate of coastal erosion in Europe.
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