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enemy line

noun as in firing line

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Western weapons have further disrupted Russia’s usual military doctrine of massing a preponderance of troops and weapons to pierce the enemy line and then advance deeper into enemy territory, Muzyka said.

The roughly eight hours of action split through eight missions lead to plenty of cinematic moments such as U.S. pilot Wade Jackson in a dogfight with Zeroes and divebombing a Japanese carrier; an epic battle atop a moving train; and a sobering night excursion of paratroopers dropping behind enemy line mixing in liberal amounts of graphic violence.

But you can see how statements like this might get taken personally, à la Sawant’s “Bezos is our enemy” line.

The sketch shows his plan to split his fleet into three divisions to break and destroy the enemy line coming out of Cadiz harbour in Spain.

From BBC

"The details, yes,” says he, "but this relates to the whole. And of that you are not able to judge. You see only your little sector and so cannot have any general survey. You do your duty, you risk your lives, that deserves the highest honour—every man of you ought to have the Iron Cross—but first of all the enemy line must be broken through in Flanders and then rolled up from the top.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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