They simply could not escape the operating bases in the event of a surprise attack.
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Without the Heights, Israel would have little room to maneuver if there were a 1973-like surprise attack.
In the past this lead to adventurous foreign policy decisions, most notably the 1950 surprise attack against South Korea.
It's set in a fictional 1989 with the Soviet Union waging a surprise attack on the city of Seattle.
The depth and space of the Golan can buy the time for regular forces to contain a surprise attack.
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The purpose was to reduce the risk of surprise attack, accidental war or war by momentum, such as World War I.
The last thing you need when coming back to a paused game is a surprise attack when you're not ready for it.
Surprise attack, terrorist attack, it gave rise to fear and anger and dread and uncertainty that our whole reality was now different.
As nuclear arsenals grew, each of the two main sides in the Cold War gained second strike capability, rendering a surprise attack moot.
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Every time a cease fire is signed, the Vikings will surprise attack me or the Americans the very next turn, often with nuclear weapons.
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Promptly after Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt created a high-powered commission, headed by Supreme Court Justice Owen Roberts, to investigate how such a catastrophic surprise attack could have occurred.
RBS' officers hoarded the Bank of Scotland's bank notes, then presented them all at once in a surprise attack, demanding the gold and silver specie that backed them.
He reminded the cadets the surprise attack by Japan on Pearl Harbor in 1941 sparked dramatic changes in the military and the September 11 attacks have done the same.
Rebel soldiers launched a surprise attack in Homs on Sunday morning, in an attempt to retake the Baba Amr district which was overrun by pro-Assad forces a year ago.
Rather than the deterrent effect expected from IW (much as the Japanese planners of the surprise attack against Pearl Harbor had hoped), a reckless application of information operations could provoke massive retaliation.
The paradox is that the fewer weapons each side has the greater the danger of a surprise attack because at lower numbers it becomes easier for each country to disarm the other side.
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The key to effective nuclear deterrence was a secure retaliatory capability, meaning an arsenal that could ride out any surprise attack and then respond with such devastating effect that adversaries would find the prospect unacceptable.
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Hakura said the Turkish military wanted to conduct a surprise attack against the PKK prior to the springtime, when violent attacks tend to escalate, and when the snow in the mountainous border region leaves the fighters' footprints.
In the wake of a surprise attack by Filipino revolutionaries on American troops in the town of Balangiga, which had killed forty-eight of seventy-four members of an American Army company, Waller and his forces were deployed on a search-and-destroy mission across the island.
The Gunzerker (no, really) is a scrapper, with the ability to deal added damage and wield two guns at once, and the Assassin is able to become invisible, misleading enemies into attacking a decoy as he withdraws or sets up a surprise attack.
Current U.S. strategy calls for riding out a nuclear attack if necessary, which reduces the danger of having to launch on warning before all the facts are known but increases the danger of being caught on the ground in a surprise attack.
Hawaii Gov. Neil Abercrombie, a former congressman, noted that the cuts known in Washington-speak as "the sequester" could lead to 19, 000 workers laid off at Pearl Harbor, site of the surprise attack in 1941 that launched the United States into World War II.
The shocking state of large swaths of the existing Eisenhower Interstate Highway System, which our late president rightly implemented as a Cold War hedge to ensure rapid military mobilization after a surprise attack or for speedy logistics re-supply in the event of regional civil emergencies.
Given the nature of that threat, seen in light of our experience with the 9-11 surprise attack, and the crumbling one after another of the pillars of containment, it would have been risky in the extreme to have allowed him to remain in power for the indefinite future.
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The other part of the paradox is that if the enemy really thinks it can pull off a disarming surprise attack, then the very fact we have a retaliatory force is a powerful inducement to launching that attack because what looks like a deterrent to us looks like a huge threat to them.
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There is also John Deutch, who, as director of central intelligence for President Clinton, famously kept classified materials on an unsecure home computer and, who, as Michael Ledeen will report in his forthcoming book The War Against the Terror Masters, deliberately changed the CIAs priorities so that warning of a potential surprise attack on America was no longer among them.
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The lightly-armed cruiser sank after taking the full force of a surprise German attack on 5 November, 1940.
The proliferation of long-range strike systems, particularly ballistic and cruise missiles, could allow an aggressor to launch a surprise mass attack on these target sets.
"We've had a double whammy: We've been the victims of a surprise terrorist attack and most forecasters believe our economy is heading for recession, " said Sen.
The process itself has also forced the U.S. to give up some of the attack advantage of strategic surprise.
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