fighting men

With its networks disrupted, its fighting men mutilated, its leadership assassinated and its military infrastructure under constant bombardment, Hezbollah is facing its worst crisis in four decades.

After initially refusing to allow black men to enlist, Washington was desperate for fighting men.

Israel cannot claim to have eliminated Hamas without destroying its infrastructure in the south, where it believes Yahya Sinwar and the other leaders are lying low in tunnels under the civilian population, along with an unspecified number of fighting men.

It's pretty clear we would've had half a million of our fighting men dead, and not to say whom we would've killed of the Japanese.

The book is less a history of the final evacuation than a meditation on the meaning of the end for America’s fighting men and women.