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.
At times, it is as if a primordial battle is raging between sea and land.
If Mr Murakami wins this battle, other listed companies could soon land in investors' sights.
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.
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.
The battle of Kunduz is important because this is the land route the food will pass through.
It is the very nature of the battle in Afghanistan - to push the Taliban out, take land and hold it - which means helicopters could never be the one-and-only solution.
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.
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.
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.
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For that parcel, AvalonBay didn't have to battle condo developers, who are prohibited by state law from building on leased land.
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.
Now that the expensive land grab is over, the companies are catching their breath, surveying their kingdoms and comparing the spoils of battle.
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The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.
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